Why are unified diffs only "grudgingly" accepted?

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:28:52PM +0200, Cees de Groot wrote:
> Thomas Wouters  <thomas at xs4all.net> said:
> >I think you're being very unfair to Guido and the others who
> >do most of the work on Python: the difference between sending in a context
> >diff and a unified diff is *one character* in a command line, and they *do*
> >accept unified diffs. 

[ Cees' advocacy of 'accept anything' policy ]

> (old-style edit diffs should be banned, because they're too fragile. But
> that's a clear technical reason).

Funny, that's the only type of diff Guido refuses to accept ;) The text
explicitly states that unified diffs are accepted -- but if you don't know
what to create, create context diffs. That's all it says.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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