From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19719 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2002 17:43:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19712 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2002 17:43:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2002 17:43:49 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8HHhg312278; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:43:42 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] convert blocks to dictionaries, phase 1, main part References: <20020917143553.GA28408@nevyn.them.org> From: David Carlton Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20020917143553.GA28408@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:35:53 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz said: > I think that you should take Andrew's suggestion, though - create a > branch to finish this work on. It's a bit of a hassle, since you'll > need to do periodic merges to the branch, but I don't feel right > adding something with this many temporary interfaces and FIXMEs to > the trunk. Then you can commit patches on the branch without > approval, and get it into a stabler state. Sure, if that's what you want. Is it okay to put up an RFA after I've switched over just blocks, or do you want me to wait until after I've switched over global symbols as well? Obviously my attempt to make patches smaller by introducing temporary interfaces wasn't a smashing success. Ah well; I'll know better next time... David Carlton carlton@math.stanford.edu