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- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 20:16:34 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- Subject: How to send me patches for the mint library.
-
-
- Hi all...
-
- First of all, I'd like to reiterate that patches and anything else
- related to the MiNT library should be sent to this address
- (entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) and NOT to my other address. If
- you don't know what my other address is, don't worry about it, this
- doesn't apply to you :-).
-
- Second, PLEASE do not send me huge files with large numbers of patches
- without specifying EXACTLY the interrelationships between the patches.
- I've had to reject several patches from the Pure C and Sozobon diffs
- I've received because they gratuitously broke the GCC library in
- several different ways. Because of this, Patchlevel 27 is likely to
- not work very well on these compilers. As an example, the patches to
- fread.c and fwrite.c were rejected because they basically changed all
- occurrences of "size_t" to "unsigned long". This breaks the
- portability and ANSI/POSIX compliance of the libraries. Some of the
- other patches for the sozobon stuff may rely on this patch, and those
- parts just aren't going to work in the next intermediate release.
- (What the heck is wrong with HSC that it requires all these size_t
- kludges anyway?)
-
- Third, please don't send plain-text and uuencoded diffs in the same
- file, as I'm likely to forget to save the plain-text part after
- decoding it.
-
- Fourth, I've received several copies of the same patches from several
- different people. If you're forwarding a patch written by someone
- else, please check to make sure they haven't already sent it to me.
- If you aren't sure if I've got a patch, send it in a separate message
- from any new stuff you may be sending; this way if I'm sure I've got
- an old patch already I can discard it without having to edit the
- message to get the parts I don't have.
-
- I hope these guidelines aren't too restrictive...it's just that I'm
- spending nearly all my free time dealing with these little annoyances
- instead of actually getting anything useful done on the library, and I
- want to be able to get a fully functioning library up on the archive
- as quickly as possible.
-
- Thanks a million,
- entropy
-
-