Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change
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- Magnus Bäck <baeck@google.com>
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- Nov 28, 2012, 15:39 UTC
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On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 19:10 EST,
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:Show 15 quoted lines
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Magnus Bäck <baeck@google.com> wrote: > > > While "constant traffic" probably overstates the issue, these are > > not theoretical problems. I recall at least three cases in the last > > year or so where Git has seen breakage with Solaris or Mac OS X > > because of sed or tr incompatibilities, and I don't even read this > > list that thoroughly. > > Most of the *constant* traffic is about *theoretical* > incompatibilities, how much of that are real incompatibilities, it's > not known. _Some_ of the traffic is about real incompatibilities, > sure, but you could count only three cases *in a year*. It's not a > huge amount. And then, how man this year? > > Also, I would like references to those incompatibilities.
I don't remember the details of the Mac OS X problem, but just searching the archives for "xpg4" revealed the following Solaris problems since April:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195010 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/195966 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/207944
-- Magnus Bäck baeck@google.com