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RE: [PATCH] Move path_prefix_p declaration from cygheap.h to path.h


> I have floating around here somewhere a relatively clean openjade
> build/patch kit. (Not the horrible hack I've seen referred to
> somewhere). It's a mighty big app though 'cause I haven't attempted to
> make it link dynamically. If that would be of us to you, let me know and
> I'll look at making a diff for you.

Hey, that would be great!  Yeah, if you could just send me the
source/makefile/config diffs that would be wonderful.

> > last I heard the docs were all SGML, of which I know less than I do
> about
> > HTML, of which about all I know is that it shows up in my browser
> window
>
> The docs are in docbook, which is a particular SGML DTD. It's really
> very very easy (easier than HTML, because there is almost no
> presentation related headaches. I know docbook-xml quite well, and that
> is a very close cousin to docbook-sgml (in fact the sgml DTD will be
> deprecated when the docbook DTD v5.0 comes out soon). So you have a
> helping hand here if you change your mind about attemping doco writing.
>

Ok, thanks.  Perhaps I'll take a look someday and see what I can add or
correct.

> > > Or, maybe Robert would like some input on his cygwin/daemon code.
> ...
> > I'll keep those in mind too (although it seems to me that Robert's
> probably
> > got a pretty good handle on what he's doing).
>
> I hope so :}. However the number of reviewers to date is 0. My code is
> now pretty divergent from Egor's original daemon, and while the last
> plan I heard was to merge in the daemon to HEAD when 1.3.4 goes out the
> door, the more reviewers/testers before that happens the less chance
> Chris will be on a plane with a club coming to visit me after such a
> merge :}.
>

Well, now you've got 1 ;-).  But I don't want to get myself even more
overcommitted here; I'll need to be able to switch back-and-forth between
regular and daemon setups without too much difficulty.  I assume its not
much more than swapping between two cygwin1.dll's?

[snip]

> In short, while it's not a lot of code (heh, check the patch size :})
> it's got plenty of TODO's in the code. It grew with a mind to a goal,
> rather than a detailed plan in advance and then code.
>

Code first, ask questions later, that's my motto. ;-)

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.



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