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Re: branching 1.14.x

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:34:38 -0400

> On Mar 14, 2020, at 10:32 AM, James McCoy <jamessan_at_jamessan.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Thank you!

Mark
Received on 2020-03-14 15:34:49 CET

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