Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/4/2016 2:59 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 04/04/2016 11:30 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: ... In any case, since we don't currently have "official" distros for Solaris -- I would be content changing all these issues to ENHANCEMENT rather than DEFECT. Thoughts? I think this wouldn't change the actual

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Marcus
Am 04/04/2016 11:30 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 04/04/2016 08:00 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 04/04/2016 12:11 PM, schrieb Απόστολος Συρόπουλος: yes, that's nice. But you shouldn't commit fixes without a possibility to test if it was good. Would you? ;-) First I did this in the past. Please see

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/04/2016 08:00 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 04/04/2016 12:11 PM, schrieb Απόστολος Συρόπουλος: >>> >>> yes, that's nice. But you shouldn't commit fixes without >>> a possibility >>> to test if it was good. Would you? ;-) >>> >> >> First I did this in the past. Please see >> >>

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Marcus
Am 04/04/2016 12:11 PM, schrieb Απόστολος Συρόπουλος: yes, that's nice. But you shouldn't commit fixes without a possibility to test if it was good. Would you? ;-) First I did this in the past. Please see https://asyropoulos.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/compiling-openoffice4/ interesting.

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Nicolas Christener
Hi Marcus, * :) On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 00:41 +0200, Marcus wrote: [...] > @Nicolas: > AFAIK your company (Adfinis SyGroup AG) is managing the ports for  > Solaris Sparc and x86. Is it possbile to get help from you for this case? Thanks for keeping me in the loop! Unfortunately we do not have

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/4/2016 2:28 AM, Marcus wrote: ... It's simply a fact that we have no experts for Solaris and no testing hardware. ... Solaris runs on Intel PC hardware, so no need for special testing hardware. From the late 1980's to 2002, I was a system performance analyst and architect for servers

Re: procedure for going from RC to release

2016-04-04 Thread Carl Marcum
On 04/03/2016 06:17 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 04/03/2016 09:42 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Carl Marcum wrote: I was looking at how some other projects handled "extras" things like this. Other projects designed their trees in a different way. I found Maven uses sub-folders under release/maven

RE: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Απόστολος Συρόπουλος
> > yes, that's nice. But you shouldn't commit fixes without a possibility > to test if it was good. Would you? ;-) > First I did this in the past. Please see https://asyropoulos.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/compiling-openoffice4/ At that time I was sure the patches would find their way to source

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Marcus
Am 04/04/2016 11:14 AM, schrieb Απόστολος Συρόπουλος: one problem of integrating patches is that you need to test them if the trunk builds are still OK or if some adjustments are necessary. However, AFAIK no developer has a Solaris machine under the desk and therefore it's not a good idea to

RE: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Απόστολος Συρόπουλος
> > one problem of integrating patches is that you need to test them if the > trunk builds are still OK or if some adjustments are necessary. However, > AFAIK no developer has a Solaris machine under the desk and therefore > it's not a good idea to commit fixes when you don't know what the >