[ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: [osol-code] ksh93-integrationprototype004 2007-01-27 webref+diff

[Roland Mainz]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Oh, that's a "great idea". Small example:
> > Once upon the time someone wrote a IPv6 patch for dtksh, a test suite
> > for the change and some documentation. The test suite and documentation
> > were not put back into the normal codebase and were stored "elsewhere"
> > in a "permanent storage which will not go away".
> 
> No, it was stored in the engineer's home directory, which was a mistake.

Wasn't it on the webserver, too ?

> As for the *.diffs, the way we handle this in projects which expect to
> update to upstream sources often is to only store the diffs, and not
> check in the sources with the diffs applied - that also encourages
> engineers to submit fixes upstream so that the diffs don't have to be
> updated every time a new upstream release comes out.

Unfortunately that won't work for OS/Net since (AFAIK) runtime patching
of sources is not allowed and the *.diff stretches over the Makefile
parts, too. And this wasn't the goal for the *.diff idea either. The
*.diff is there to have a quick&&efficient way to toggle between the
patched and unpatched codebase on demand for both updates and testing,
as a help for those who work and maintain the code. It's something
needed to organise ourselves in some usefull way.

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Bye,
Roland

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