From: Damon C. <da...@tc...> - 2010-04-02 19:41:42
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On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On testing today, I discovered that this week's commit of the [TIP #362] > patches left the [registry] command in disarray on at least Win32 > systems using a mingw/msys build. I judged that committing the fixes > unreviewed (but tested) was better than leaving it broken or reverting > changes, so I took the liberty of doing so; in any case [TIP #28] > suggests that post-commit review is appropriate when changes affect > only a single maintainer area, and the maintainer of that area is > making the changes. What was the problem on mingw/msys? I only build under that environment, and that's the environment I tested on. > I have no convenient way to test on Win64 equipment, so I'm requesting > that those who do please test the current HEAD. I'll grab HEAD and run some testing tonight. > I'd also like to solicit comments regarding whether it is advisable to > backport 'registry 1.3' onto the 8.5 branch. Given that we plan at > some time in the future to demote 'registry' to a module in 'pkgs/', > it seems sensible to begin thinking of its releases as being > asynchronous with Tcl's. Comments? I'd say go ahead and move it since we're now in the process of adding new packages with the next release. Damon |