Hi On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:27:01PM -0400, Helmut K. C. Tessarek wrote: > Hello, > > I have a few questions/comments and I hope that Thomas or Nicholas find > the time to reply. > > I've noticed that as soon as a release is made the version is bumped and > debug is turned on. I was not even able to turn this off with the > configure option --disable-debug. > So a static binary compiled from git has 4.5 MB while a static binary > compiled from a release tarball has close to 2 MB. > People should be able to choose, if they want debug info or optimized code.
No, I want people using Git master to build with debug symbols. I don't want bug reports without symbols. > > Setting the version to 2.4 is _very_ confusing. As it is now, people > think they are running release 2.4 while they're not. People don't know when they've built from Git and when they haven't? I don't think this is a real problem. > Other projects use versioning like: > > 2.4-dev > 2.3-<number of commits since release tag>-<7 character long git hash> > (e.g.: 2.3-17-76a9e6f) > > The development model does not follow a pull request model, nor does it > seem to be git aware at all. > > People send patches and their code is commited by either Nicholas or > Thomas, which is fine, but the author field should still have the name > of the coder. It has not. Instead the author is mentioned in the commit > message. I don't want to complain, but this looks very strange, as if > the developers have no idea how git works. > > One of the reasons why I haven't sent any patches is, because I don't > want to write code, test it, send a patch file via git to a mailing list > (which is another annyoance) and then my name does not even show up as > the author. I don't know why pull requests are such a problem. People are credited in the commit message if they send a patch and I know their name (that is, I have a real name to credit and not an account name or alias). > Anyway, it certainly sounds that I only have negative feedback. This is > not the case. tmux is a great product and I use it daily. I just wanted > to comment on a few things I just don't understand. Maybe the developers > can shed a light on these things. > > Cheers, > K. C. > > > -- > regards Helmut K. C. Tessarek > lookup http://sks.pkqs.net for KeyID 0xC11F128D > > /* > Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for chaos and madness > await thee at its end. > */ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tmux-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tmux-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send an email to tmux-users@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tmux-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to tmux-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
