Re: patch from b7.1 to b10

[Vincent Kieffer]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Lawrence Gold wrote:

LG> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 03:55:30PM +0100, Vincent Kieffer wrote:
LG> > Just thinking ... perhaps we should also release a patch from mame
LG> > 0.37b10 (dos version) to xmame 0.37b10. It would be less big (normaly it
LG> > should only contains the Makefile.unix file and the src/unix and
LG> > src/contribs directories) and more usefull to users of both dos
LG> > and linux version.
LG> 
LG> Ooooh, good idea.  I may opt for this instead of patches between the
LG> unofficial versions.  There may be one drawback, though:  I think all of
LG> the core source files are changed in x-mame (comments are adjusted from //
LG> to /* */, and ^M might also be stripped), so the patch in this case might
LG> still be huge.

There are solutions to the ^M issue ...

- You could require the use of the "unzip" command with a "-a" argument to
  decompress the dos .zip file before applying the patch file.

- You could provide a tarball to decompress at the root source directory
  instead of a conventional patch file.

-Vincent

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