Re: gnulib strftime imported into Emacs

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>> Ideally, Windows related changes should be committed to the
>> repository at approximately the same time as the changes for Posix
>> platforms, but that's only possible if you let me see the changes
>> _before_ they are committed, and if we coordinate the commit to happen
>> when I have time to work on that.  Is such cooperation possible?
>
> I worry that this would mean that every time I want to make a
> nontrivial change to a makefile, I would have to run the exact change
> by you first.  And, as you say, you don't have much free time, and can't be
> expected to respond quickly; it might need to wait until the next weekend,
> say.  That wouldn't be a good recipe for development; it would slow things
> down too much on the trunk.
>
> If this turns into a continuing problem, perhaps it would be better to establish
> a branch for Microsoft-related platforms, and to merge changes from the trunk
> into that branch whenever you have time.  People could then do Microsoft builds
> from that branch.

The problem is not that things are submitted for w32 that breaks the
trunk for others. The problem is that things are submitted to the
trunk that you know breaks the w32 build. So AFAICS it will not help
at all having a special w32 branch. It will just create much more work
for nearly everyone. Or do you think differently?


I did suggest before that you establish a branch for things that you
know might break the build. Are there any problems for you doing that
for changes that you know beaks builds on other systems than those you
know?


Could you please revert the last submit to the trunk that breaks the
w32 build? (I think it is a good change, but not on the trunk until it
works for w32.)

I am glad you