Re: [PATCH] Compressed streams (take 2)

* Greg Stein (gstein@lyra.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:29:42AM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> > Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:
> >...
> > > It's probably
> > > not worth it though. But hey, if it gets my patch in, I'll do it :)
> >
> > I'm not trying to be awkward, I'm just trying to understand the patch
> > without going to the trouble of reading the zlib documentation.
>
> How about a slight change in approach here?
>
> * is the concept useful and applicable? do we really want this feature?

I like to think so :)

> * is the current code "close enough"? can the tweaks be made to the code
> after it has been applied?

> My concern here is that if we ask patch submitters to tweak a nit here, and
> tweak a nit there, each coming in at different times as different reviewers
> find time to look at the code, that eventually the submitter will just throw
> their hands up in the air and go away.

I'm not about to walk away, but I think you do have a point here...
 
> Now, I'm not saying "apply bad patches and fix them later." But I am saying,
> "can we alter the buffer size after the code is in?" or "can the data
> generation occur after the code is in?" It would seem that neither of those
> is fundamental to having the code added such that people can begin to
> exercise it in new ways.

Well hopefully my next patch will basically satisfy everyone.

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