On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson <sthomp...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > Date: 04/07/2013 06:15 PM > > > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 18:08:54 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > > > >As a result this wonderful language, Java, has no sequence numbers, can > be > >wider than your wide LCD panels. Now you need to make a change to > >something because of a bug report. How do you note the fix? And how do > you > >send it? So far as I have seen, you pretty much re-release the whole > >product. > > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/patch.html > > <snip> > > I read this rapidly. I'm trying to understand certain headaches "we" have > with certain products where it seems that you have to do a re-install to > put on fixes [and I do not necessarily mean here at IBM]. > > I did notice that the "Patch" document refers specifically to a POSIX > environment and "C" protocols as one would (at least me) expect to find in > a *nix world. > Patch is the unix version of SUPERC that shows the delta between source files. diff3 allows a 3 way merge between the original source and 2 different updates to the original source. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff3 I believe the point is that source maintenance can be done without the line numbers. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > Opinions expressed by this poster do not necessarily reflect those of > poster's employer. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
