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[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:38:41PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-21 09:50, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:23:29AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > If you really *do* need a recommendation for a size I think that 50k is
> > > about the size that things would probably start getting seriously annoying
> > > for dialup users.  Yeah, if a size must be explicitly specified 50k is ok.
> >
> > FYI, bde want's patches at least up to 100K, probably somewhat larger to
> > be inlined.  I'd personally, say that whatever he says is definitive (at
> > least on the soruce says).
> 
> Well, yes.  Something near 50-100 KB is ok.  Not much larger though.
> 
> Diff output can get big even for relatively simple changes, if they're
> mechanically applied to lots of files.  If Bruce thinks that 100 KB is a
> typical size of a "maximally acceptable inline patch", then he's probably
> right and said that having in mind a lot more of patches than me.
> 
> Now, to get this topic resolved or at least closer to being resolved...
> do we need to update the problem-reports related documentation to
> include a suggestion that ``anything larger than 100 KB is probably too
> big for inline inclusion, but less than 100 KB is usually ok?''

That seems reasionable.

-- Brooks

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