Hi, * Scott Tringali wrote (2008-01-02 11:17): >Thorsten Haude wrote: > >>Interesting, I would have said that as a rule, the code is supposed to >>be single-branched (releases excepted), but now that I think about it >>this might just be an impression formed in my first days when CVS was >>more a source for anguish and possible embarrassment than a tool. > >I think branching is branching, no matter what tool you use.
Sure it is; I was only talking about my own Ängste back then.
>Note if we go down this path, it does mean that the non-Linux builds
>will likely wither and die due to lack of interest. Without somebody to
>make sure that snazzy feature X works on AIX, the AIX port will die.
If nobody even does a few simple tests on a certain OS (like currently
VMS) then it's possibly not worth keeping. That said, we should have
much better tests.
My main problem with AIX is when it comes without a Motif lib-dev. I'm
pretty pampered by Debian when it comes to libraries, even switching
between Lesstif and OM is trivial. On other systems I have to handle
library pathes all of a sudden. Brrrrrr!
>But, maybe the way forward *is* fork it so that Linux can move forward,
>and the older versions can stay alive somehow in maintenance mode. It's
>far easier to do this if the code is colocated in one repository than if
>it really is forked.
That would be worst¹ case, but I don't see a problem yet with keeping
NEdit alive on Linux and all other interesting² platforms.
¹: All the still worster cases are not interesting.
²: I.e. those on which we can get testers.
Thorsten
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