Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-13 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-01-09 14:23 skrev Eric Blake: According to Peter Rosin on 1/9/2009 3:11 AM: I don't have gnulib-tool, which is mentioned in that file, how do I get hold of that tool (for cygwin)? Here's how to get a shallow gnulib clone, then build git-merge-changelog: *snip* Great, thanks, works

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Markus, * Duft Markus wrote on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:29:48AM CET: Maybe on windows, we should recommend using interix? You can't be serious, on a GNU mailing list, suggesting that we recommend a proprietary system over a free one.

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Rosin
Den 2009-01-09 03:58 skrev Eric Blake: Check out Bruno Haible's git-merge-changelog, currently in the gnulib repository. It handles rebasing/merging of ChangeLog entries with minimal I don't have gnulib-tool, which is mentioned in that file, how do I get hold of that tool (for cygwin)?

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-09 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Rosin on 1/9/2009 3:11 AM: Den 2009-01-09 03:58 skrev Eric Blake: Check out Bruno Haible's git-merge-changelog, currently in the gnulib repository. It handles rebasing/merging of ChangeLog entries with minimal I don't have

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Agreed, too; 2.2.8 soon would be good. A couple of small issues need looking at (esp. the aclocal.m4 messup reported by Akim). Any volunteers for the release? so that we can bite the bullet and integrate your branch into mainline. Agreed, too.

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 06:37:18PM CET: It will solve a lot of problems if autotools can be used to build real Windows programs. Yes, but we need to address the efficiency issue. For example, http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2008/11/4959.php dropped the

Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! I'm wondering how to proceed; some of the patches in the pr-msvc-support branch no longer apply cleanly to git-head. So, before things get totally out of hand, I would like to rebase the branch. However, I have never rebased anything before. I could probably rebase my own repo, but I don't

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Someone needs to cut the next libtool so that we can bite the bullet and integrate your branch into mainline. Bob == Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-08 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Rosin on 1/8/2009 12:43 PM: Should I kill the branch on savannah, rebase my local tree and finally push a brand new pr-msvc-support branch? Should I create a new topic branch named pr-msvc-support2? Should I merge git-head into

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
Peter Rosin p...@lysator.liu.se writes: Should I kill the branch on savannah, rebase my local tree and finally push a brand new pr-msvc-support branch? Should I create a new topic branch named pr-msvc-support2? Should I merge git-head into the branch? That sure feels backwards, but what do I

Re: Rebase of the pr-msvc-support branch?

2009-01-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:58:36AM CET: According to Peter Rosin on 1/8/2009 12:43 PM: Should I kill the branch on savannah, rebase my local tree and finally push a brand new pr-msvc-support branch? Now that you've told us the branch will be rebased, it makes sense to