On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:02:54 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:56:46 +0100 (CET), Michael Polak wrote:
>> Hmm. >> I was thinking not about storing ZIP files at this account. >> I thought someone will first upload 1.70rev 3 raw release (uzipped) to >> this diretory, and then other users will patch it with their updates... > But surely this will result in extreme confusion with user A's patch > being overwritten or modified by user B or BOTH. > Just to be more clear you should specify that all patches go into > /changes/username and the originals are NOT patched directly. > Obvious ? Not necessarily. ;-) Great minds really DO think alike. My changes were placed into changes/glennmcc about 20min before I read this message. > This could result in 5 different versions of say INIT.C in 5 different > directories - which is safe - but how does one decide which gets compiled > into the release version ? Agreed. With a different dir for each of us.... no overwrites/no confusion. :) With all changes uploaded to the same dir... nothing but confusion. :( -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.zorg.org/unixhumour/
