From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19081 invoked from network); 27 Apr 1998 13:04:55 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 27 Apr 1998 13:04:55 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17757; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:59:29 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:59:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199804271259.NAA14867@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: ZSH patches - please, indicate ZSH version in subject To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de (Andrej Borsenkow) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:59:03 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <00b401bd71c5$ecf11340$21c9ca95@ao13.mow.sni.de> from "Andrej Borsenkow" at Apr 27, 98 02:19:11 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (2% of Full) X-Stardate: [-30]1067.70 X-US-Congress: moronic fuckers X-Headers: OTT X-Mouse: +++ ????? +++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. X-Parrot: no, it's only resting. X-Personality: INTJ X-email-is-not-HTML: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"plgiO1.0.OL4.m48Hr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3879 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Andrej Borsenkow wrote: >One step further would be common patch format. Something, like > >ZSH-Version: zsh-3.1.2-zefram4 > >in body. It would allow automatic sorting and provide patch archive by >version. I think this would be preferable to using the subject line. I'd rather keep the most useful information near the beginning of the subject line, and the version number is very rarely in doubt. Perhaps we could come up with a patch data format that could be recognised anywhere in the message body, maybe something like PATCH-DATA: Version: zsh-3.1.2-zefram4 Dependencies: 3858 3869 Negative-Dependencies: 3859 preceding the actual diffs. Whatever format we come up with would have to cope with the need to unapply preceding patches, and should probably also handle gzipped uuencoded diffs (which we occasionally need). If you come up with a suitable format and a patch-applying tool that parses it, I'll add it to Util/zsh-development-guide. -zefram