Re: nt branch KILLED

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 03:36, Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi Robert,

> The nt branch is based on many and many existent code CHANGES to address
> the Windows/Unix differences, and it's very complex to maintain.

Which is why we want to review it as we bring it in!

> - After the C++ changes, the nt branch is broken on IPC
> - After the changes around 2-3 February there are again C++ problems with
> MS VisualStudio
> - I don't know C++ at all, and so i can't fix the previous problems
> - I'm the only developer
> - the nt branch is very big: 690 KB diff file
> - now the nt branch is totally out of sync
>
> I can't no more maintain this alone.
>
> >I can say this: the nt branch won't be merged as a single block. It's
> >too big, and it's had what - three? - authors which means that there are
> >lots of little gotcha's. We need to find those, and the process of
> >merging single bits of functionality does exactly that.
> >
> >I've (AFAIK) merged in all the individual changes you've split off and
> >posted here, with a couple that were evaluated as being unneeded - some
> >of those little gotchas.
>
> This not true:
>
> I have posted the latest patch at 5 February: I have NEVER received ANY
> reply and it was not commited.

OOOPS! I've dug it up, reviewed it, and committed it. I'm sorry about
dropping the ball there.

> I'm still waiting to know any comment about, so I'm thinking:
>
> No opinions or comments ==> no interest about Windows

Just very very busy.

Rob

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