Hey Moinak :-) I'm out of office for approx. 6 to 10 hours. Will take your points into consideration.
Thanks, Martin > >> > > > > Hey Moinak, > > > > I regret it from the innermost of my heart, that I have offended *you*. > > I only wanted to be everybody's friend, thats one of the reasons why I > have donated so much work and money into FOX. > > > > Then all the personal problems (caused or at least triggered by an > over-involvement exactly here). Then yesterday's misunderstandings between us. > Plus my over-over-tiredness (changed personality / different state of mind, > most people will probably have no clue how it feels like, because they > would always have stopped long before, whether being paid or not). > > And no response to any of my friendly emails from up to a week earlier > (marriage congrats). > > And suddenly I see you announcing to the ML that you planned to upload > your client-app and client-lib changes, despite the fact that I had already > merged them in (here at home), based on / derived from what you have > published in May. Plus the formulation "if nothing *else* speaks against it" > (what did this "else"refer to?). Plus the hint that you have also merged in > freeglut, too, why that redundance? > > > > Yes I was enquiring about objections from others here. > If you have objections you mention it, which you have done > anyway. So what is the problem with that ? > > I am building FOX while having only FOX itself on the build > machine. All Nevada Xwindows packages were removed. So > this config is causing Xscreensaver to enable the extrusion > plugins which fail without Freeglut and Gle. The FOX packages > should be self-hosting. > > > I mean in my state / condition of being totally at the end, with pain in > my stomach, hardly capable of performing a thought. After having worked > months on finally getting the src ready for a merge. Suddenly that message!!! > Beng into my face!!!!! I couldn't believe it. In conjunction with all the > un-answered friendly posts from before (facebook), congratulations to your > marriage, apologies for last week, etc, I somehow lost touch with what is > good or bad. I wasn't sure why you were doing this. Why would you add all > the stuff again, in parallel? Why syncing the fox-gate, thereby more or less > making it a pain for me to merge my month-long stuff in, effectively > destroying what I had worked on over the last days. > > > > I really do not understand what the problem is with one merge > going before other either way. All you need to do is a hg pull > and resolve the merge conflicts if any. > > Alan has been periodically checking in stuff and I have been > periodically merging while at the same time testing and building. > What is the big problem with that ? And hg in fact makes merging > a lot easier. > > This is not how opensource development works. One does not > commit perfect huge codebase in one shot. Rather you should be > committing often even if your changes are not fully complete. This > also gives others to look at your code assist in bug-fixing and > improving. It is an inclusive development model, whereas what > you are doing is an exclusive one. > > Have you posted your diffs at all ? I have no clue what changes > you made, and I will actually have problems dealing with one > huge merge coming in since I have made several changes to the > source that you are working with. > > > Dear Moinak, I am glad of / happy about having the *privilege* to > co-work with you. Your work is totally appreciated. And your > experience/competence lies in a missing area. > > Please also note, that I had placed your name / authorship into the > three bigger prototype files that I took from you, back then two weeks ago. > > But I would really ask you to please publish your diffs directly. And of > course to load up / change whatever you like later. But please let me > *first* sync in the huge global diff. I find it more convenient to merge your > changes in afterwards, rather than vice versa. But you may find that many > things are already inside of what I would like to push in first. > > That sorted order looks more favourable to me. What do you think? > > > > Please do not do one huge merge, it will cause problems. The > FOX tree is currently being used for Project Indiana and I have > been working to get a working resynced build. One huge merge > will cause problems at the last momment. Have you tested your > modified Xserver on x86 ? > > Rather post your diffs somewhere, even if in the form of a tarball > so that others can look at it. Then merge one module at a time > not everything at once and not the Xserver changes immediately > before it is tested on x86 - please post the Xserver patchset and > I can then do the testing on x86. > > What changes do you have for the apps stuff ? Please post your > diffs first. I can hold back on merging my apps stuff but I do not > understand what big problems it will cause. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > > Regards, > > aplogogies (exclusively) to Moinak, > > > > Your friend Martin > > > > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > xwin-discuss mailing list > > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
