From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9609 invoked from network); 10 Oct 1997 09:44:44 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Oct 1997 09:44:44 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA19075; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 05:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 05:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199710100933.FAA19060@math.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: patch archive set up In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 21:13:19 EDT." <199710100113.VAA10505@luomat.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 10:33:43 +0100 From: Bruce Stephens Resent-Message-ID: <"wDqtp3.0.-f4.dPVFq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3579 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu luomat+zsh+users@luomat.peak.org said: > for example: > PATCH: 3.0.4 Src/subst.c I agree with Geoff Wing, a description is more sensible, since source changes often have (or should have!) associated documentation changes, at least. I'd like the archive to be semi-automatically appliable, so I'd like to be able to grab the most recent zsh from the archive, grab all the patches (filtering on the version number), and run a zsh script to apply them all. So as a start, I'd suggest that all patches ought to be taken at the top source level (so I'd do "cd zsh-3.1.2; patch -p0 < ..."), and that mails would contain either the actual patch, or a gzipped/compressed patch, but not tarred stuff, because that's more fiddly to process. I must admit, I'd prefer just a patched version to be made available, say once a week or something. Does anybody keep a zsh suitably patched? My reason is that normally I haven't been patching zsh, but just recently there have been a couple of useful patches that I wanted, so I was forced to try to get up to date enough to apply them, and it wasn't trivial! In fact, I eventually couldn't apply them cleanly, but I got what I wanted and still have a working zsh.