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From: Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>
To: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
Cc: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] duplicated effort
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:45:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131224154517.GB18259@toaster.adamthompson.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131124103810.eklhad@comcast.net>

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:38:10AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Ok guys, we are really screwing this up from the get-go.
> Chris and I are doing exactly the same work, but in two different branches.

Yeah, and I've just sent a number of patches which it sounds like aren't
needed/wanted against the master branch.

> I have confidence in us and wouldn't waste time and confusion with another branch.
> I don't understand branches anyways.
> I barely understand git!
> Besides, almost all the work is in two new files, jsdom.cpp and jsloc.cpp,
> which can't possibly screw up the original stuff.
> We only change the makefile at the last minute when it all works,
> or we're pretty sure it works.

The only comment I'd make on this is the typedef and constant changes have to be over multiple files
but I checked it builds (on debian against the libmozjs185 packages).

> I would recommend staying with the main branch and being very
> clear about who is going to do what.
> Anyways I guess I'll stop working on things until we know what we're doing.
Same here, appologies for the patch noise.

> But hey, don't get me wrong, I'd rather have lots of people trying to help
> than nobody trying to help.

Good to hear. These things take time to work out,
particularly when you have multiple developers working on a relatively small code base.

Cheers,
Adam.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-24 15:45 UTC|newest]

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2013-12-24 15:38 Karl Dahlke
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