Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re-indenting the configure script (please test)

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:55:14 -0800
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:46:12PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> I am not sure that I agree with wholesale cosmetic changes to the code.
> 
> They always cause the loss of important history.

I'm not sure there's history in a configure script (as opposed to a
configure.in file from which it's generated) - we don't even keep the
configure script under CVS for Ethereal (tcpdump does, but there's not
much real history there, either, as it's a generated file).

I think he was saying that re-indentation might be useful when, for
example, you're trying to debug a configure script, as you might
actually have to understand what the script is doing.