Greg Hudson wrote:
> What I want to avoid is the code getting into a halfway state, where we
> have machinery for a feature we never wind up coding.
And I appreciate that. However, I know that *I* will be working on coding that
feature, so I am biased towards believing that the effort isn't going to go to
waste.
> Adding a printf framework, on the other hand, is just a waste of code if
> we never wind up adding a feature that would let us do FreeBSD --> "%b
> %D %a %r" or whatever. So, in the absence of a spec and design for such
> a feature, I don't want to see the printf framework code going into our
> tree.
I'm going on vacation in a week (driving with the family for two weeks!), so
that's not going to happen soon. However, I would be willing to dedicate some
of my hacking time during OSCON towards working on that spec/design. Anyone
else going who wants to sit around and drink^Wbrainstorm with me is welcome... ;)
>
> Also, a note on properties-as-keywords: the patch you sent to the list
> (http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-04/1184.shtml) does not
> appear to re-substitute files after an "svn propset".
I guess I was assuming that the propset would mark the WC copy as dirty and
trigger the re-substitution; but I can see that's not the case, so I'll have to
take a look at where that behavior can be hooked. I'm actually not that wedded
to the properties-as-keywords feature as the rest of the framework; I'm happy
enough to add that as a private patch for my own usage internally (as soon as I
can work out how to compile the Win32 version).
I've actually seen how I can make the current code a little more generic (I'm
not a big fan of elsif's), but I have no time to do anything about it right now.
One of the reasons I want to get this code into an approvable state is that I am
starting to lose the details of what I did. I have a lot of other irons in the
fire and I want to achieve at least some closure. I can continue syncing with
the trunk and updating my private branch (svk makes that easy), but the longer
this drags on, the less I'm going to remember of what I was doing.
John
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Received on Fri Jun 18 04:44:38 2004