Re: loose plan (was Re: K&R C)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> 
> 
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> >We're not in the habit of making any plans...
> >
> >But, if pressed, I'ld say:
> >
> >near term: iron out remaining bugs in 4.0, split off a 'stable' 4.0 
> >           branch, tag the trunk as 4.1
> >
> 
> I think there is a way in CVS to merge branches eventually, no?  

Yes.  It's not much more comfortable than just applying patches to
both branches individually, though...

> Anyway, simple bug fixes usually can be handled by "patch" with
> realignment, but something like ANSIfying the code would certainly cause
> problems for a large percentage of the patches in SourceForge.

Most of them will require tweaking anyway.  The only real question is how
much of it.

> This would be nice.  I'd opt for clearing the patch page over the course 
> of a couple months.  Then ANSIfy and restructer code.

While clearing the known bugs is a viable goal, I don't see that for the
patches tracker.  Some of those will simply not be integrated, or are too
far out of date to be applied cleanly.  The patches tracker is as much a
service to enterprising users as to us --- it's a means of collecting
unofficial changes that won't go in the mainline source code, as much as
one of collecting bugfixes that will have to be.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.