On Saturday, July 3, 2010, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 3, 4:54 pm, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1) The src/ directory needs be under Mercurial version control. This >> would increase the size of the spkgs by quite a bit. > > But you don't need to add all of src/. In fact, you could keep src > in .hgignore and only selectively hg add the files that you actually > want to modify in your patch.
True. > >> 2) Many patches only need to be applied conditionally based on the >> runtime environment. > > I would argue that such patches are fundamentally flawed as they can > never become part of upstream. How hard is it to add an #ifdef bracket > around your patch? > That is also a very good point. > Best wishes, > Volker > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
