Hi, Alan, On Jan 28, 2010, at 18:55 , Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-01-28 16:47-0800 David MacMahon wrote: > >> >> On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:06 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> On 2010-01-27 23:04-0800 David MacMahon wrote: >>>> Is it generally OK to send patches to plplot-devel [...] >>> Yes. Sending patches to plplot-devel as a compressed attachment >>> is the >>> preferred method. >> >> Thanks. Do you know what the size limit is on attachments sent to >> the list? > > As plplot-devel mailing list administrator, I long ago decided to > set no > size limit because I was irritated at other lists that had anal- > retentive > limits that interfered with communications. Thanks for clarifying that and for facilitating open communications! I had encountered an attachment size limit earlier, but I went back and checked and found that is was for a message sent to plplot- general rather than plplot-devel. > Therefore, as far as I am concerned, PLplot developers have plenty > of scope > via this list to attach anything they like that is on topic. As a > courtesy > to those with limited bandwidth it would probably be a good idea to > compress > large attachments Agreed. It's also a courtesy to those who have plenty of bandwidth, but small in-box quotas. > (surely there is a git patch option to do that routinely?) That's what I thought, too, but I'm still looking for it! The "-- attach" option will make the actual diff output be an attachment (the commit message is still sent in the message body), but I have yet to find an easy way to have it compress the attachment. If anyone knows how to do this, please share! > The flip side of this is your recent post of your complete error > report to a > website rather than to the list was being way too cautious about > bandwidth > since that compressed tarball was only 83K (!) in size. :-) I suppose it's better to err on the side of caution. :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
