[aur-dev] [PATCH v3] Implement capability to pin comments above others

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 at 21:46:58, Mark Weiman wrote:
> [...]
> > Seems like pkgbase_pin_comment() and pkgbase_unpin_comment() are
> > almost
> > identical. Can we share most of the code?
> > 
> 
> I thought about doing that, but I thought the names of the functions
> were important for code readability. Perhaps adding an argument to
> pkgbase_pin_comment() that does it and just have
> pkgbase_unpin_comment() call the other function to change that
> argument? Also the error messages have a slight difference in text that
> also pushed me to making two separate functions.
> 

You might want to have a look at pkgbase_adopt() and pkgbase_vote()
which do something similar.

> [...]
> > Why is this needed? Could you elaborate please?
> > 
> 
> The reason I had to do this is the variable $base_id when opening the
> file for a second time (to display all comments) was already set and
> caused it to then be set to an empty string, so I added a check to see
> if the variable was already set so if it is, it can avoid trying to set
> it again removing the problem. I do not really understand why this
> happens, but it does on my computer.
> 
> It seriously took me a couple of hours of head scratching to find that
> problem and fix it because it really shouldn't have been an issue.
> 
> I also noticed that $base_id is set in both pkgbase_display_details()
> and pkg_display_details(), should I just remove that assignment
> altogether in pkg_comments.php?
> [...]

Yes, if removing this code doesn't break anything, it is definitely
something we want to do. Maybe do it in a preparatory patch since it is
quite unrelated to what this patch does.

Thanks!