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* Guidelines for patch submissions
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** Where to send the patches.
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Patches intended to be applied to Wget should be mailed to
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<wget-patches@sunsite.auc.dk>. Each patch will be reviewed by the
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developers, and will be acked and added to the distribution, or
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rejected with an explanation.
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If you want to discuss your patch with the community of Wget users and
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developers, it is OK to send it to the general list at
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<wget@sunsite.auc.dk>. If the patch is really large (more than 100K),
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you may want to put it on the web and post the URL.
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If your mail composer or gateway is inclined to munge patches, e.g. by
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line-wrapping them, send them out as a MIME attachment. Otherwise,
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patches simply inserted into an email message are fine.
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** How to create patches.
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Patches are created using the `diff' utility. When making patches,
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please use the `-u' option, or if your diff doesn't support it, `-c'.
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Using ordinary (context-free) diffs are notoriously prone to error,
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since line numbers tend to change when others make changes to the same
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source file.
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An example of the `diff' usage:
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diff -u OLDFILE NEWFILE
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-or-
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diff -c OLDFILE NEWFILE
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Also, it is helpful if you create the patch in the top level of
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the Wget source directory:
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$ cp -p src/http.c src/http.c.orig
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...hack, hack, hack....
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$ diff -u src/http.c.orig src/http.c
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If your patch changes more than one file, the output of all the diff
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invocations should be concatenated to form a single patch.
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Alternatively, you can use the `-r' option to compare entire
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directories. If you do that, be careful not to include the
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differences to automatically generated files, such as `.info*'.
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If you run on Windows and don't have `diff' handy, please get one.
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It's extremely hard to review changes to files unless they're in the
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form of a patch. If you really cannot use a variant of `diff', then
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mail us the whole new file and specify which version of Wget you
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changed; that way we will be able to generate the diff ourselves.
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** Standards and coding style.
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Wget abides by the GNU coding standards, available at:
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http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html
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The most important point in that entire document is "no arbitrary
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limits". Even when Wget's coding is less than exemplary, it respects
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that rule. There should be no exceptions.
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Here is a short recap of the indentation/naming rules, borrowed from
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XEmacs:
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-- Put a space after every comma.
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-- Put a space before the parenthesis that begins a function call,
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macro call, function declaration or definition, or control
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statement (if, while, switch, for). (DO NOT do this for macro
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definitions; this is invalid preprocessor syntax.)
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-- The brace that begins a control statement (if, while, for, switch,
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do) or a function definition should go on a line by itself.
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-- In function definitions, put the return type and all other
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qualifiers on a line before the function name. Thus, the function
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name is always at the beginning of a line.
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-- Indentation level is two spaces. (However, the first and following
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statements of a while/for/if/etc. block are indented four spaces
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from the while/for/if keyword. The opening and closing braces are
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indented two spaces.)
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-- Variable and function names should be all lowercase, with
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underscores separating words, except for a prefixing tag, which may
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be in uppercase. Do not use the mixed-case convention (e.g.
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SetVariableToValue ()) and *especially* do not use Microsoft
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Hungarian notation (char **rgszRedundantTag).
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-- preprocessor and enum constants should be all uppercase, and should
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be prefixed with a tag that groups related constants together.
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** ChangeLog policy.
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Each patch should be accompanied by an update to the appropriate
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ChangeLog file. Please don't mail patches to ChangeLog because they
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have an extremely high rate of failure; just mail us the new part of
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the ChangeLog you added. Patches without a ChangeLog entry will be
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accepted, but this creates additional work for the maintainers, so
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please do write the ChangeLog entries.
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Guidelines for writing ChangeLog entries are also governed by the GNU
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coding standards, under the "Change Logs" section.
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