Re: [PATCH]: mknetrel builds Guile #2: debug

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:


> Hrmm.  If you're going to have nonstandard requests, it would be handy
> if these somehow would be handled automagically.  How dead is CVS
> development, maybe they would take a patch?

Deader than roadkill, IMO.  I think they are in permanennt bugfix only 
mode (except for new features developed "in house" by the maintainers 
themselves).

That's why I am investigating transitioning us to a cygwin port of cvsnt 
(no, it's not just for native windows anymore...)

The thing about the ChangeLog stuff, is that it really isn't that 
non-standard.  MOST projects dislike *patches* to ChangeLog files, and 
request that ChangeLog entries be sent in cut-n-paste form.  This is 
because a patch to ChangeLog *never* (okay, ALMOST never) applies 
cleanly, since it is extremely likely that your patch will be queued up 
behind others, which ALSO affect the ChangeLog at exactly the same spot 
yours does: the top.

I tend NOT to modify the ChangeLog at all -- I put my ChangeLog entries 
in a separate file, and paste that into the email by hand...

--Chuck