On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Gao, Liming <liming....@intel.com> wrote:
> Jordan:
>   The real requirement is that some users use UPT to install core
> package into the different directories, such as Core\MdePkg.
>  After the installation, they want to easily compare the
> original package and installed package.

Can't the tool help to easily compare the package without the order of
these sections being so strict?

>   This change is required by EDKII project major release, but not required 
> for daily development.
>
>   The section order will not be changed unless new section are introduced in 
> INF/DEC.

But what about when a developer add a new section to a .inf or .dec?
Will there be a major EDK II cleaning every six months?

>   Yes. Those changes are directly output from UPT tool. And, we have test to 
> cover this tool. So, I have  confidence.

Okay, so it seems likely that either the tool:
* broke the world, or
* didn't break anything

At least there shouldn't be a needle in a haystack problem.

>   So far, I have no branch for those change. If you request, I
> could send zip the source INF/DEC (before UPT and after
> UPT) to you.

No thanks. I would prefer that you start using git, and post a branch
with your changes incorporated.

-Jordan

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