On 08/19/2010 02:15 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> Jaap Keuter wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:14:43 +0200, Anders Broman
>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] 
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaap Keuter
>>>> Sent: den 18 augusti 2010 11:02
>>>> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
>>>> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Remove old packet list code in trunk?
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Mind you that it would make back porting to trunk-1.4 of packet list 
>>>> related code more difficult since the
>>>> source code will diverge.
>>>> That means more manual back porting, which is more laborious and error 
>>>> prone (sorry Gerald).
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest holding off on stripping trunk of old packet list code, 
>>>> but not to maintain it. After we put>1.4.1 'in the wild' and survives real 
>>>> user scrutiny it time to start ripping it out IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jaap
>>> I agree with you, just to be clear not having NEW_PACKET_LIST defined
>>> is not expected to
>>> Work in trunk any more. Perhapps adding comments about that and/or
>>> change it to #if 0 if edditing a file for
>>> Other reasons?
>>> Regards
>>> Anders
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The only thing to be done in trunk is to remove the configuration
>> option or add a 'no longer functional' remark to the item
>> Changing to #if 0 would also invalidate patches for back porting.
>
> Would moving to Git or Mercurial help for this?

I don't see how another revision control system helps with porting incompatible 
patches between branches.

Thanks,
Jaap
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