On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:47:12PM -0700, Murugan K wrote:
> Hi
> Now I am able to apply & test my patches successfully. Thanks.
>
> But I have one more problem. My Perl-5.8.4 attached patch file is not
> getting delivered to the [email protected] as my patch file size
> is 430 KB (440,348 bytes). I am getting the MAILER-DAEMON failue
> message which is mentioned below.
> Is ther any other way to split it into two patches and send it
> across. But anyway , I want to send as a whole patch as we are
> sending significant NetWare changes.
Don't send patches for 5.8.4
(This is what Dave was saying in the previous message)
Changes to 5.8.x are made by integrating them across from the development
track.
The principle exception is for code no longer in the development branch, such
as 5.005 threads.
I'm not going to apply bulk patches to 5.8.7-to be - instead I will wait until
we verify that the code in the development branch is stable (in that it
doesn't break the build on any platforms we have access to or cause any
reported problems), and *then* it will be integrated to 5.8.x, the maintenance
branch. I do this to try to keep the maintenance branch as stable as possible.
In particular, I don't want to apply what are in your own words "significant"
changes in one hit to stable, as it is almost certainly destabilising.
I realise that this may make your job harder, but you only have to deal with
one platform. However, not doing this makes my "job" impossible, because I'm
walking a tightrope of trying to keep every platform still working.
("job", because I'm doing this on a volunteer basis, as are the other core
perl developers)
Nicholas Clark
