Richard Lowe wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
> > Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
[snip]
> > In much the same way that we generate C sources via rpcgen, the
> > ksh93 build process could [diff/patch, rename, exclude, etc] the
> > files found in the baseline tree to create the OpenSolaris-specific
> > source tree.  And then build that tree.
> 
> No.
> No no no no no.
> No.
> 
> This is not analogous to rpcgen, this is patching a fairly large component
> into the ON world *at build time*.  Such that we don't actually have the
> sources we build in the tree at all, but instead have the original sources
> and a collection of hard to maintain, impossible to cscope, impossible to
> opengrok patches and scripts to perturb them into buildable form as part of
> the build.
> 
> This is work that should be done prior to integration, with only the results
> being integrated.  In fact, this is work Roland *has* done prior to
> integration, what we're discussing is the "with only the results..." part.
> 
> Did I say No already?
> Please.  No.

+1 ($ for ((i=0 ; i < Inf+ ; i++)) ; print "No" ; done #).

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Roland

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