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Re: branching 1.14.x

From: James McCoy <jamessan_at_jamessan.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:32:04 -0400

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:26:48PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> > My only advice would be to reach a point where we accept no one is going to
> > step up and fix this on Windows and then decide accordingly. If we can fix it
> > for Linux without making Windows any worse, then I would think we should do
> > that. I do not see why we cannot leave the tests failing on Windows. Again,
> > as long as we have not made Windows any worse, if some future APR update were
> > to make the tests pass that sounds like a good thing.
> >
> > As long as we know why the tests fail, that seems acceptable to me. If we
> > cannot fix Linux without making Windows worse than it is with 1.13 then that
> > is different and more complicated for sure.
>
> I cannot really judge the impact on Windows. Apparently, the change
> breaks things on Windows because APR's code doesn't work properly there.
>
> Let's wait a bit and see if developers involved will speak up.

I'm working on it now. I should be able to have something that avoids
regressions on Windows this weekend.

Cheers,

-- 
James
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