<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the past, our strategy for applying patches has been:<br><br>1) They apply. <br>2) They compile <br>3) They do not cause angst amongst core developers <br>4) They do not cause complaints about things breaking from users.<br><br>This strategy has been able to keep us from branching at the cost of some chaos from time to time.<br><br>If the interop patch does not make it past item 3, so be it. But, maybe there is a subset of the interop patch that can be rationalized meets all four criteria.<br><br>Charles<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Sean Dague <sean@dague.net><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:24:12
AM<br>Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Inteop patch Mantis#1696<br><br>
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:08:56PM +0200, Dr Scofield wrote:<br>> Frisby, Adam wrote:<br>> > I maintain that committing to a branch is going to be the most useful over the life of this patch. Mainly because people want to use OpenSim+1696 to test the AWG specs, and having a ready-to-use version that doesn't require fiddling is likely going to be useful to some folks.<br>> ><br>> > Adam<br>> > <br>> branch would be fine with me. trunk: not yet.<br><br>Just say no to svn branches!<br><br>Honestly, if this stuff isn't tracking with trunk, then it's useless.<br>Every use of a branch in the past history of OpenSim has been to replace<br>trunk, merging from branches in svn is just too painful.<br><br>Personally, I'm with Mike. There is nothing to discuss until this is<br>publicly testable code. <br><br> -Sean<br><br>--
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