Re: Time to branch off 4.0 from 4.1?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 21 June 2004 07:07 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > *) If we move towards ANSI-C function definitions, I think that should
> > be done *before* we split off a 4.0 branch, to reduce "patch distance"
> > between the two branches.  I'm in favour of doing that, with a tag
> > 4.0.1 before we start it, and another tag (4.0.2) right afterwards. 
> > 4.0.2 would become the branch-off point for the 4.0-release branch.
>
> I've pretty much completed this monstrous editing job over the weekend.
> Nothing in CVS yet, but it can now be pulled off at a moment's notice.

Did you do this manually, or were you able to automate the procedure
somehow?   I ask with some trepidation since it seems likely that applying
this to the cvs tree will break every patchset on SourceForge including a
couple of large ones that I have been maintaining.  

That's not an  argument against doing it, but I wonder if there is a way 
to apply your ANSIfication to both a patched and unpatched CVS tree
in parallel so that I can regenerate the patchset to apply against the
ANSIfied version.



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