Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: document test balloons in flight

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2025, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqcy9m1r3q.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <m1seily1e3.fsf@gmail.com>

Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> writes:

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>> So the only effect it would have is to smoke out truly slow platform
>> maintainers; if their users are happy enough with such slow upgrade,
>> they have lived and they can live with versions of Git that are
>> years stale that we no longer care about.
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> For what it is worth, Gnulib and threfore Coreutils, among others, began
> using compound literals in 2017 and it seems to have not caused any
> problems [1]. Even 'pcc' supports them.

Thanks. Our worry however includes platforms outside the Open Source and/or Free Software ecosystem, which would not be helped very much.