* Re: patch archive set up
1997-10-10 1:13 patch archive set up Timothy J Luoma
@ 1997-10-10 8:50 ` Geoff Wing
1997-10-10 8:54 ` Andrew Main
` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: Geoff Wing @ 1997-10-10 8:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Timothy J Luoma <luomat+zsh+users@luomat.peak.org> typed:
:I'd suggest that descriptive Subject lines be given, so as to make the
:archive more useful, such as
:PATCH: zsh-version-number filename
:for example:
:PATCH: 3.0.4 Src/subst.c
:
:Suggestions? Comments?
It can often be a number of files, so `filename', even with multiple filenames
wouldn't be always be that meaningful.
PATCH: 3.0.5 improved zle display (previously stuffed up by Geoff Wing)
would be better in my opinion. Then people could grab patches only relevant
to specific topics rather than specific files.
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: patch archive set up
1997-10-10 1:13 patch archive set up Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-10 8:50 ` Geoff Wing
@ 1997-10-10 8:54 ` Andrew Main
1997-10-10 9:33 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-10-13 12:16 ` Andrej Borsenkow
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Main @ 1997-10-10 8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timothy J Luoma; +Cc: zsh-workers
Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>I'd suggest that descriptive Subject lines be given, so as to make the
>archive more useful, such as
>for example:
>
>PATCH: 3.0.4 Src/subst.c
That's not descriptive. Anyway, a lot of patches apply to more than
one version, or affect more than one file. I see nothing wrong with
the current convention of putting a brief description in the Subject:
line -- that is, after all, what it's there for.
-zefram
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* Re: patch archive set up
1997-10-10 1:13 patch archive set up Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-10 8:50 ` Geoff Wing
1997-10-10 8:54 ` Andrew Main
@ 1997-10-10 9:33 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-10-13 12:16 ` Andrej Borsenkow
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Stephens @ 1997-10-10 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
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.
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* Re: patch archive set up
1997-10-10 1:13 patch archive set up Timothy J Luoma
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
1997-10-10 9:33 ` Bruce Stephens
@ 1997-10-13 12:16 ` Andrej Borsenkow
1997-10-15 0:59 ` Timothy J Luoma
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrej Borsenkow @ 1997-10-13 12:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zsh workers mailing list
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
>
> Well.... 'set up' may be an overstatement. There is nothing there yet.
> Feel free to start sending patches.
>
1. Where to find this archive?
2. There were definitely some 100+ KB patches to 3.1.2. Some of them were
_not_ posted to zsw-workers (I am pretty shure). What about creating
intermediate 3.1.x release, so that people could start to use new patch
archive?
thanks
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