Patch Maker version 2.0beta1 was officially released at FOSDEM (http://www.fosdem.org) on Sunday.
This first release in the 2.0 series builds on Patch Maker version 0.75. Patch Maker 2 has two modes of operation: "Build Mode" ------------ Patch Maker retains the ability to hack on Mozilla chrome without needing a CVS tree. A few tweaks and bugfixes have been made to this version. All Patch Maker users need to upgrade - see the note below for why. "CVS Mode" ---------- Patch Maker is much more in version 2.0 - it's now a general system for managing patches in a CVS tree, and (in the case of chrome patches) syncing them up with a nightly for testing, avoiding the need to build. Patch Maker keeps track of your patch as a unit, and allows you to quickly and easily perform common operations on the files in it - grepping them, editing a subset, and cvs operations like update, add and checkin. This mode is not specific to Mozilla. I cannot stress strongly enough how much this software can make your life easier. Ask anyone who attended my FOSDEM talk - they are all convinced ;-) Find Patch Maker at http://www.gerv.net/software/patch-maker/ Important Note: --------------- One of the changes to Patch Maker 2 makes it more compatible with the layout of unjarred chrome in tarballs. This meant a change to the format of the chromelist.txt file which ships with nightlies. Unfortunately, this change is not backwardly-compatible. Patch Maker 0.75 will not work with nightlies from 2002-02-17 onwards, and Patch Maker 2.0 will not work with nightlies before that date. I apologise for this Microsoft-like forced-upgrade behaviour; this was caused by my own incompetence. Gerv
