GPA-0.5 ???

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Benedikt,

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:43:44PM +0100, Benedikt Wildenhain wrote:
> I know CVS, of course using it does not directly mean that you have
> discuss about every change; but Peter has directly edited some Makefiles
> (he does not know how to use auto.+) and it probably would not be the
> best solution to put these into the cvs - tree.

At least Peter could have used a branch.

> I will know read some
> documentation about these tools and if somebody gives me the possibility
> to have write access to the official cvs - tree I will change the files
> used by auto.+ and aclocal and integrate the new source files created
> by Peter.

Your help is very welcome! I suggest you write a ChangeLog based on
the diff between Peters release and the current CVS content.
If we are lucky, we may identify groups of independent changes
that we/you can merge back stepwise.
Would you like to follow this procedure?

> > Care to explain how this slows you down? Oh, yes: you have to deal with those 
> > fscking lusers who complain that your work of art has bugs. Stuff like that.
> Of course, there also where some people testing the new gpa features.

One big problem already occured: UTF-8 (see recent mails on this list). 
It might have been detected earlier with a larger user test group.
It might also have not been detected, but on average the more public
a development is performed, the less flaws are in the corresponding software.

Best

	Jan

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