RE: [PHP-DEV] CVS Administriva (important)

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote: > At 05:43 PM 6/23/2003 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > Can someone explain why James just made it impossible to > > properly work with source code which resides in PHP 4 and 5? > > > > - diffing is impossible > > - merging is impossible > > - history of new commits becomes fragmented > > > > James, why did not you discuss this first? All opensource BSDs > > have been using _one_ source module since their inception. > > In the case of FreeBSD, that dates back to 1993, so this is > > clearly a proven model. > > > > What do the active developers on this list think? > > I am not quite sure how/what broke. However, no matter if what James did > was the right or wrong thing to do, I think it should have been discussed > first (in detail). A bunch of things are broken. Files are missing in php4 head and the wrong versions of files are also in there. I think we need to roll this change back as soon as possible and take another shot at this in a much more organized manner. -Rasmus