Re:One week of OpenSSL cleanup
by jgrahamc on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:18PM
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But isn't what's happening here a change to the coding style to match the style used by BSD? That might be fun for BSD coders, but is that actually helping improve the OpenSSL code?
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Well, that'd be useless to move from tabs to spaces or from n spaces to m spaces in this context, but as far as I've observed, OpenSSL codebase uses the unconventional Whitesmiths style [1][2][3], which might be a burden on the developers to navigate.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style
[2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...
[3] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/cry...
edit: formatting
I don't think they intend to contribute back to the original OpenSSL code base, but see this as a OpenBSD only fork.
It might not help upstream OpenSSL, unless they keep an eye out for the bug fixes. Consider OpenBSD the upstream for this new fork.