Re: [patch 00/16] Portability Patches for git-1.7.1 (v4)
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Apr 28, 2010, 12:17 UTC
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- <20100428121756.GA17244@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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- <20100428091922.GF36271@thor.il.thewrittenword.com>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:19:22AM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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> > > > Furthermore, if we do take such changes, how are we going to manage > > > > portability going forward? Some constructs (like non-constant > > > > initializers) make the code much easier to read. People _will_ submit > > > > patches that use them. Is somebody going to be auto-building on all of > > > > these platforms with vendor compilers to confirm that nothing is broken? > > And that's fine. People who are trying to build will notice the > breakage on their platforms and likely submit patches in due course.
That was sort of implicit in my questions. _Is_ there somebody who is going to be building on these platforms that will notice the breakage?
But it sounds from the rest of your mail like you are willing to do so, which is at least encouraging.
-Peff