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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: >> The max line length is increased to 100. This eliminates dozens of >> known issues. > > I'm not a fan. I'd rather fix the issues, and am willing to do so. Strangely, > a quick scan suggests that at least some of them aren't even a problem anymore. IIRC, the calculation assumes something about how many indentation spaces are added, so a line less than 100 characters long winds up over 100 after the indent is acounted for. > I read Pod documentation all the time, almost always in perldoc, in an 80 > column terminal. I would like to keep things looking good in that format. I agree. But I think that sort of clean up should happen in the same way that people do typo cleanup. Someone motivated can hunt for long lines and fix them. I don't think it needs to be a *porting* check -- it certainly should be on the Todo list. > I agree with this sentiment. I want to be clear, too, that the *other* stuff > should prevent stuff from landing in blead. For example, "funny characters" > without =encoding, duplicate names, etc. Agreed. David -- David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdgThread Previous | Thread Next