Re: [myhdl-list] my patches

[Sébastien B. <seb...@mi...>]

What a way to welcome new potential contributors :-) and yes, I will 
fork (and have a closer look at this "yield None" 'fundamental' problem 
in my first patch, thanks for pointing it out).

On 10/21/2011 01:19 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> On 10/18/2011 05:11 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
>> On 10/18/2011 04:59 PM, Bob Cunningham wrote:
>>> If you think MyHDL has conservative policies, you should try to get a
>>> Linux kernel patch accepted.
>>
>> Done: http://www.mail-archive.com/st...@li.../msg00138.html
>> You might say this is a trivial patch, but the MyHDL ones aren't
>> complicated either (yet).
>
> In your simplistic view of things. In reality, you have gained zero
> understanding of what 'yield None' in MyHDL really means. Following
> the guidelines would at least have told you that there is something
> fundamentally wrong.
>
>>    >   Are you going to create your own website to host and document your
>>    >   fork?
>>
>> The MyHDL mods are part of a larger HLS project that will, indeed, have
>> its own website. So I'd simply distribute the modified MyHDL along with
>> it :-)
>>
>>    >   What I think you mean to say is that you intend for your patch to
>>    >   never have more than a single user: You.
>>
>> Certainly not, and this is also why I posted on this mailing list in
>> order to try to avoid forking. But since getting even simple patches
>> reviewed/accepted is messy, forking is probably easier for me.
>
> No, it's your patch that is messy (fundamentally broken even). The
> guidelines are there to avoid that I have to waste time on such kludgy
> work. Even after several rounds of insisting, you still didn't get the
> hint. I've really had it with that kind of unwarranted self-confidence.