"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen, > > On May 27, 2007 5:42 PM you wrote: > > > > Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > | Now on the Axisp branch: > > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/swilson/axisp > > > | > > > | commit 68ee822219e707ea366fa877e0a99ae8b45c4dc1 > > > | > > > | Remove backslash-newline sequences from single-quoted > > > | strings in makefiles. > > > > > > I may be wrong but believe those are solved problems in > > > Axiom.build-improvements, Axiom.wh-sandbox, and > > > Axiom.gdr-sandbox. > > > > > > It is nice to see them solved again. > > > > I know that. > > ... > > Of course this is a rather trivial instance and I don't think > anyone means to overly sensitive to the issue but I do think > it would be most curteous to make such remarks at the time of > posting a patch and to refer to such earlier work if at all > possible. It is often unpleasant to see work being re-done > without any attribution.
The issue of attribution did not strike me. I upgraded my tool-chain last night, built silver, and noticed the build failed. I figured out what was wrong and explored possibilities. I ended up just making the required changes myself. To be honest, Im not interested in trying to keep track of build-improvments and wh-sandbox and .... I am interested in silver, since if one thing is clear silver is the `staging ground' for inclusion in gold. As silver evolves I will most happily pull and incorperate said changes in my working tree. > > > > > I looked first at wh-sandbox and build-improvments to see if I > > could cherry-pick the changes which were required. This appeared > > to be more work than the rout I took. > > > > What problems did you encounter when trying to cherry-pick? I have not invested any real time into understanding the other branches. The _specific_ issue which my patch resolves did not appear to be (from my perspective) handled by even a small handfull of commits to those branches. There is a lot of new machinery and restructuring to the build system there. It was far simpler for me to post a patch against silver then to destructure the history of wh-sandbox and build-improvments in the hopes of obtaining a clean patch. > > > It is not one of my priorities to merge build-improvments or > > wh-sandbox with silver. > > > > Given the current fractious sitation, I think we need to guard > against making it worse. It is Tim's stated intention to continue > to merge build-improvements into Silver. This does not make anything worse. Im just posting a patch against silver. Whats the big deal? > > Regards, > Bill Page. Sincerely, Steve _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer