[FFmpeg-cvslog] r11225 - trunk/libavformat/avformat.h

[Måns Rullgård]

The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> writes:

> Balatoni Denes wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Tuesday 18 December 2007 23:30-kor Diego Biurrun ezt ?rta:
>
>>>> Impressive use of capital letters and punctuation, Michael.  Just
>>>> one nitpick: the comma should have been a full stop or a
>>>> semi-colon. ;-)
>>> 
>>> Nah, keep your irony at bay, good-natured as it might be.  Michael
>>> appears to be making an effort to improve, this is much
>>> appreciated.
>> 
>> Argh, you have suppled Michael, and made him give up his own writing
>> style which gave him a distinct personality on the ffmpeg lists...
>> Bastards ;)
>
> I don't quite find myself able to parse what you mean by "suppled" here.
> I can sort-of glark the meaning from context, but I've never that I
> recall run across "supple" as a verb before...

Well, it's in the dictionary.  I guess the saying is true, that you
learn something new every day.

>> Btw, Michael's writing style never bothered me, I have learnt to
>> parse it (I don't think it's that hard, contributing something
>> substantial and useful to FFmpeg is much harder).
>
> On the mailing lists and for discussion, it does not bother me
> significantly, and as you say it helps provide personality. In
> documentation and other long-term-record text such as commit messages,
> however, it can at least somewhat get in the way.

My point exactly.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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