Re: [dwm] cycling through tags?

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:03:23AM +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> w.r.t. hacking it to your needs: it probably is nice that it's
> "easy" to do so. but I'm conservative here: I believe in canonical
> "offifical" releases (which might include of course the sensible
> patches from the users). the same holds true here as it did above:
> if I start (and am able) to mess with the source code, get some
> desired functionality running (such as, e.g. the cycling through
> tags), it will be gone with the next release and I have to start
> thinking about putting my additions in a separate source file (or
> lib), check that the function interfaces are unmodified in the next
> release etc etc.

As I've been maintaining a patchset for a while[1], I can say that it
is quite painless to update the patches to a new dwm release.

E.g. the "everything into one file" release took only one afternoon of
work to update the patches - and that was one of the two biggest
upstream changes I can remember.

Regards,
Christian

[1] dwm-mitch
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