On Wednesday 03 January 2001 06:42, Shane Nifong wrote:
> I am starting to work on the advapi32 functions. I was wondering if I
> make changes to the stub files that are there how often to I create
> patches or update using CVS?
> Should I create patches first?
I normally work in one or more sperate build trees, and update my source tree
every couple of days. When I'm ready to send a patch , I update and copy out
the latest cvs, then merge my changes in to that tree, create a patch, test
it, and submit.
You can send patches whenever you want, I usually wait until I've implemented
a set of related functionality or I've made one of my test programs happy. If
you're working on an area no one else is (as I have been), then sending
patches infrequently isn't a problem since your work won't get confused by
other peoples updates. If you need to fix something outside of the dll
directory to make thing work, you should probably send a patch for that
sonner, because if its not broken, you may be going about it the wrong way
(and if it is, is should be fixed ASAP for other developers).
For your first patch you might want to send it sooner rather than later, just
to be sure your approach will be accepted. Once youre confident that you are
going about it the right way (tm), you can hang back and send your patches
less frequently.
Cheers,
Jon
--
"May their negative actions ripen upon me. And may all my virtues ripen upon
them."
"If it could be talked about, everybody would have told their brother."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
