Re: Bug fixing and CVS

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > I maintain PHP for Mandrake Linux, and I try to ship a bug-free PHP. bug-free doesn't exist :) > That is, if there were some showstopper bugs that were not corrected in > 4.3.1, I take the bugfixes from CVS and apply them. If you want to do that, then just use the latest stable CVS snapshot... > My concern is: php-bugs always says "This bug is fixed in CVS", then I > have to look through php-cvs and try to find what changes were made > concerning that specific bug. > > Is there a better way? Is there a special CVS command to show the diffs > on a changelog entry? Nope, there is no command for that. > Would something like bugs.php.net/patches with a list of all closed bugs > and their corresponding diffs be thinkable? It wont be practicle... it means another extra step for the devs and it will sometimes be forgotten... I don't think it's a good idea as you can always see the CVS commits on the php-cvs@ list anyway. Derick -- "my other box is your windows PC" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------