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The zen of dwm is endlessly browsing this list of patches and eventually adding so many that any new patches cause merge errors that take a long time to untangl

• LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Isn't that what https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch is made for?
  • smegsicle 5y ago
    that would make for a fun gentoo ebuild
  • skulk 5y ago
    eh, perhaps, but I'd never use it. I used dwm because I loved staring at that code and modifying it to my needs, and all those preprocessor directives are frankly horrifying. I'm sure this would have been much more practical, but I stopped using dwm in the name of practicality anyways.
• Macha 5y ago
  Reminds me of early 00s phpBB MODs (which they allcapped to avoid confusion with moderators). It ended up this horrific syntax (http://web.archive.org/web/20041010114405/http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=39 http://web.archive.org/web/20041010114405/http://www.phpbb.c... ) that functioned as both a bbcode forum post for manual instructions that didn't look too out of place for people to manually apply but also parseable for auto installers like easy mod. Then it turned into this XML file format in 3.0, which was similar in spirit but a more regular language made it less easy to screw up. XSL was used to make the "go edit it yourself" instructions version: http://web.archive.org/web/20160310004103/https://www.phpbb.com/mods/modx/sample-30-126.XML http://web.archive.org/web/20160310004103/https://www.phpbb.... It looks like they've finally ported to a real plugin system (https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/ https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/), but I had my fill of extend by patching in those days.