On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:00:08AM +0100, seventh guardian wrote: > On 7/9/06, Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, we have been very *very* conservative in the past about > >backwards compatibility - and that patch breaks it. It's no > >longer possible to start fvwm with "-blackout". I don't think > >this is the right time to remove it. Of course it's obsolete and > >useless, but in the 2.x series we tried to keep compatibility as > >much as possible. The ominous 3.0 release (which is meant to > >remove a lot of old and obsolete stuff) would be the place to > >clean everything up. > > Well, it wasn't even useful to 2.4, and I doubt people would keep > configs from pre-2.4.. So I thought it wouldn't matter. My fault.
Sometimes it is surprising how long it can take until everybody has switched to a more recent release. Some people stick to 2.2.x for no other reason than that it is smaller. > How can I reverse the change? With a bit of CVS magic. First, find out the revision numbers of the changed files before and after the change. For example, for fvwm.c do $ cvs log -N fvwm.c ... ---------------------------- revision 1.375 date: 2006/07/07 23:34:31; author: renato; state: Exp; lines: +0 -8 Removed the warning about the obsolete option -blackout. Removed its reference from the manual. ---------------------------- revision 1.374 ... (The relevant numbers are 1.374 and 1.375 here). Next, generate a patch for that change: $ cvs diff -u -r 1.374 -r 1.375 fvwm.c > blackout.patch (Double check that the patch contains only the changes you want to reverse; edit the patch file if necessary). Finally reverse-apply the patch: $ patch -p0 -R < blackout.patch Repeat this for all affected files. Well, although I've now done the change myself locally, I leave it to you as it is a good practive for using cvs :-) -- While you're at it you can change the warning (and todo-3.0 file) to inform the user that -blackout *will* be removed in 3.0. > >> I'm still a bit overwelmed by the commit access, so I triple-check > >> (instead of double-check) what I do :) ... > Sorry, you're right.. Won't happen again :) There's really no reason to feel disheartened. I appreciate your work very much and other surely do too. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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