Re: Strictness

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 23:40 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > > I disagree. In a centralised VCS sure, you can scale to 100's of commits > > a day - but in a distributed VCS - e.g. bzr, git, hg, monotone ... you > > tend to get 100's of commits on branches, and a much smaller number of > > branch merges

Re: Strictness

2007-08-12 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On 8/13/07, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:06 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > > On 8/11/07, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think you misunderstanding me, it's the generation if the changelog > > > > that will take too long time. > > > > > > W

Re: Strictness

2007-08-12 Thread Noah Slater
> I disagree. In a centralised VCS sure, you can scale to 100's of commits > a day - but in a distributed VCS - e.g. bzr, git, hg, monotone ... you > tend to get 100's of commits on branches, and a much smaller number of > branch merges occuring - branch merges being the point at which code > revie

Re: Strictness

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 22:06 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > On 8/11/07, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think you misunderstanding me, it's the generation if the changelog > > > that will take too long time. > > > > Well, yes - what else could I have understood from: > > > > > That

Re: Overriding all commands in Makefile.am

2007-08-12 Thread NightStrike
On 8/12/07, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * NightStrike wrote on Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:50:21PM CEST: > > > > Update: It would appear that the automake manual needs to be updated, > > as the described AC_OUTPUT usage is deprecated. How do we get the > > manual updated? > > Preferab

Re: Overriding all commands in Makefile.am

2007-08-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 04:50:21PM CEST: > > Update: It would appear that the automake manual needs to be updated, > as the described AC_OUTPUT usage is deprecated. How do we get the > manual updated? Preferably, by sending a patch against CVS HEAD to automake-patches, or wri

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:46:20PM CEST: > > On a related note, it'd sure be nice if "make -j4 check" would run its > tests in parallel. Especially on an SMP system, and/or when some > tests sleep for a few (interminable :-) seconds. > > Of course, this might not

Re: multiple cpu's

2007-08-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> OK, so it generates Makefile's that are fully capable of handling the -j >> switch to make? > > Mostly. Problems should be reported, please include a copy of the make > output of the failed build. Hi Ralf, On a related note, it'd sure be nice if