From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb@red-bean.com>
To: "Elena Zannoni" <ezannoni@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Readline 5.1 import
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2776cb0604201816u5624bd34if608227cbef5ec49@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17479.61920.803213.910287@localhost.redhat.com>
On 4/20/06, Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> wrote:
> We do already have a branch named FSF where the readline imports have
> been done before. The same branch has ben used for importing pristine
> versions of texinfo. It seems the people you have asked must not be
> used to track code from 3rd parties, and are willing to cut corners.
CVS vendor branches have some weird characteristics that I, at least,
have found hard to work with. If someone feels using them isn't worth
the trouble, I don't think it follows that they're "cutting corners";
time spent on maintenance machinery that doesn't pay its way is time
not spent fixing bugs users actually see.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-10 18:00 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-10 18:30 ` Elena Zannoni
2006-04-10 18:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-10 18:54 ` Elena Zannoni
2006-04-10 18:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-20 17:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-20 20:43 ` Elena Zannoni
2006-04-21 1:16 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2006-04-21 13:25 ` Elena Zannoni
2006-04-24 22:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-01 13:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-05 18:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-10 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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