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- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 03:02:51 -0500
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- In-Reply-To: itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE's message of Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:07:53 MET <9311031107.AA15274@pirol.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Subject: too much mintlibs updates???
-
- > Time has seen lot's of updates for the mintlibs in recent days. Almost one
- >update per week, I guess :-) Last week I copied the complete code for pl39
- >from aaue, cause the last source version I had was pl30. I just got home and
- >discovered that pl40 diffs are there. I just merged them in and compiled the
- >whole stuff and discovered that pl41 diffs are out. Compiling takes me about
- >3 hours on my TT (sorry, no fast ram), so I don't like to do it that often
- >(and I want to compile it because there're no 68020/68881 bins included...)!
- >
- > Are there really so many bugs left in it that such a high update rate is
- >really necessary??? ;-)
-
- The short answer is: yes.
-
- The long answer is: the library is evolving, to incorporate new
- enhancements and hopefully to become more posix-compliant. This means
- that in addition to bugfixes, there also new source files needed, and
- changes to existing working sources to make them more compliant. In
- addition there are usually changes needed to make things compile
- cleanly on the four supported compilers.
-
- The more quickly I make updates available, the less likely it is that
- I'll receive patches from people that are no longer relevant or that
- must be applied by hand because they overlap some other
- as-yet-unreleased patch. this makes my life easier because the less
- time I spend on the busywork of keeping things in sync, the more time
- I have to work out fixes for known bugs and to write modules people
- have requested.
-
- If you're having trouble keeping up, why don't you let a few patches
- accumulate and apply them all at the same time?
-
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