On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:49:18AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> FWIW, I really like what you've proposed. It feels right. > >Thinking about it, I could do the Archive and Decomp parts first, >without doing the Source bits, which means I can leave the current NetIO >infrastructure alone. This gives immediate benefit, it conforms to the >original plan, touches as little code as possible, and yet is a good >step towards the Grand Refactoring plan. Little would have to be >changed in Decomp and Archive once that latter step is taken. > >I think I'll start hacking on these parts while we hash out the >specifics on the more grandiose parts of the refactoring.
Ok, but I have to defer to Robert's observations on the way to handle this. He's done a lot more thinking about the subject than I have. Again, feel free to create a branch for working on this, if you want. The files in winsup/maint are reputed to be excellent for manipulating branches. Robert can probably provide more details on these tools. cgf