Operator Precedence and Patches.

[Tom Hughes]

In message <92ed83124b.Tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Personally, I have only very recently put OSLib under CVS control, so that
> won't help you historically. However, I believe Tom Hughes was, at one stage
> maintaining a CVS repository for OSLib going back to the first 'open'
> version; I don't know whether that is still the case. No doubt he will pipe
> up here if so.

I do have such a repository, but there are certain problems with it...

> I don't really fancy going back over the early versions in order to create a
> full CVS repository myself; apart from the work that alone entails, the
> directory structure changed very significantly at some stage. Generating the
> patches for each version seems like even more work.

The changing directory structure is certainly one of the problems
with my repository. My repository still has the original structure
and I have to bend each new release into that structure before I can
commit it, which usually means that I am a release or two behind.

In addition the case of the filenames hasn't always been very consistent
from one release to the next which also causes problems when working on
a case sensitive filesystem.

The other problem is that only the core source files are in my
repository - much of the surrounding stuff is not there,

> If there's sufficient support from users, and depending upon the state of
> Tom's repository, we could possibly put it on SourceForge and make it public.
> I have not approached Tom on this idea, and I've no idea how useful this idea
> would be in general.

I certainly think putting it on something like SourceForge would be
a nice idea, although adding the whole back history would be a bit
tricky.

Tom

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