Re: Backporting / Bug Tracking System / Patches

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Sebastian Nohn wrote: > it would be rather cool if a bug is fixed in CVS, the patch would be > attached to the bug in bugs.php.net. Would It would be cool, but it'd also be impractical. Much of the time stuff in CVS HEAD is different than that in a release (witness the streams introduction now). > a) people allow to apply patches to their php if the need it I tend not to like this idea from a support issue... it's adding a headache and a 1/2 to be able to keep track of all patches said and done. > b) make backporting much easier. i had some trouble in the last days with > people who wanted to backport the 64bit-bugfixex but no one knew when what > was patched where. Well much of the backporting for this 4.2.3 wasn't done because development was informed that 4.3 was about ready to be bundled. Don't count the current situation as the norm. Although all bug fixes should be attempted to be backported as well. > > Regards, > Sebastian Nohn > -- > +49 170 471 8105 - sebastian@nohn.net - http://www.nohn.net/ > PGP Key Available - Did I help you? Consider a gift: > http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/3HYH6NR8ZI0WI/ > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------< Dan Kalowsky "A little less conversation, http://www.deadmime.org/~dank a little more action." dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org - "A Little Less Conversation", kalowsky@php.net Elvis Presley