Hi all, [Andreas Gruenbacher] > As long as the patches don't badly mess up the code or slow things > down too badly, I think we will accept UNIX patches, yes. > > Porting quilt to Windows sounds more like an exercise in masochism: > quilt relies on the UNIX toolchain a lot and Windows has much slower > process startup times, so quilt will never run well as far as I can > see. I'm not sure we should even bother. I'll surely take obvious > things, and things that won't hurt otherwise.
I totally second Andreas on both points. I would myself be interested in porting quilt to Solaris, although I lack the time to do so right now. Please keep in mind that it is always possible to install newer versions of bash, sed, gawk and others to a separate location and have quilt (and only quilt if you want so) use them. This is certainly a better approach to getting quilt to run on older Linux systems or non-Linux systems than messing up with quilt's code, which I think is quite good right now, to make it support older tools. I did install a separate bash on my Linux system to workaround the broken pipe problem, and if I ever get to installing it on Solaris, I'll start by installing updated versions of everything it needs, as I know that Solaris sed, nawk etc. lack most features quilt needs. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
