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It's great to put comments in your

2025-04-10 18:05:02.980271+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

It's great to put comments in your configuration files, but when you make big formatting changes in the default files it's a royal pain in the ass when upgrading to figure out what's actually different.

Looking at you, ImageMagick. Sigh.

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#Comment Re: It's great to put comments in your made: 2025-04-10 13:16:40.475943+02 by: markd

being a developer that doesn't use the products they work on, I'm convinced most developers don't actually use the products they work on, leading to situations like this.

#Comment Re: It's great to put comments in your made: 2025-04-10 13:16:40.475943+02 by: Dan Lyke

Or they understand the files and just never have to go through the upgrade process.

Of course ImageMagick is kind of that weird edge-case because it's got two use cases, and when I'm deploying it on my web server I'm in the "hell yeah, don't let web apps running you do anything weird" use case, and when I'm deploying it on my home machines I'm in the "just let me do my stuff already" use case.

And then there's freakin' Samba. That too gave me pages and pages of diffs, but the idea that the Mac is going to be able to read given Samba share from minute to minute seems way too much to ask.

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