On 2/20/2011 2:27 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > There are _multiple_ UTC time zone files for whatever reason. On Linux, all > of > these files are identical: > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC > /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC > /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Etc/UTC > /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/UTC > > I don't know why there are so many. The time zone files could arguably be > cleaned > up, because there are a number of them which are duplicates of one another > (not > just UTC). The FreeBSD folks probably decided that there was no point in > having > so many and didn't include some of them - kind of like how Mac OS X doesn > have > have any of the time zone files which would be in /usr/share/zoneinfo/right. > I > guess that this is just one more thing that goes to show that we'd benefit > from > having an autotester on all of the platforms that we release for. > > By the way, we may want to make sure that we leave a message on pull requests > when we merge them in, since it doesn't look like there's a way to determine > who > merged in a pull request if they didn't have to make any additional changes > to > it before they could push it into the main branch. > > In this particular case, I assume that Brad did it, since he also made a > change > to fix a test for FreeBSD in std.datetime, but I don't know that for sure. > And if > for some reason I needed to contact whoever merged in a particular pull > request, > I don't see any way to know who they are if they didn't comment on the pull > request or make any additional changes when doing the merge. > > - Jonathan M Davis
On freebsd 8.1, the only UTC file is Etc/UTC, so rather little choice in the matter. I did indeed do the merge, as can be seen from the news feed: https://github.com/organizations/D-Programming-Language That's the only place I see it though, which is unfortunate. It's also barely visible from the push email from github to the phobos@ list. I think it's worth filing an enhancement request with github to have who pushed it indicated in the pull request. It auto-closed it, so there's already some hook between the two. I'll file it. Later, Brad _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
