[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package:editors editors/vi

Ulf Samuelsson ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com
Mon Mar 10 21:55:41 UTC 2008


> >>> Come on, just add -r to your grep. You already need to search
> >>> package/, toolchain/ and target/ anyway. That doesn't sound like a
> >>> real issue.
> 
> Ulf> I am talking about sed and awk which will be more difficult.
> 
> Peter> Then just do a find ..|xargs on those or use **/*.mk (if you use a
> Peter> proper shell).
> 

Yes, I can try to become an expert in shell programming, but
that is not on my top 100 list of things to do.

> >>> Bernard several times asked you to fork and do the atmel stuff in a
> >>> seperate branch. I still don't think that's a good idea considering
> >>> the limited amount of BR development ressources we have.
> 
> Ulf> He complained about things breaking, but this is bound to
> Ulf> happen.  He seemed to complain a lot on me, when patches in
> Ulf> reality came from others.  I know *his* patches caused me about
> Ulf> 3-4 weeks of extra work.
> 
> Peter> Well, it's very hard to be absolutely sure you don't break anything
> Peter> when you change something in a system like BR simply because of the
> Peter> number of config combinations you would need to test.
> 

Yes, however sometimes others can see that a patch has potential problems
in certain areas, and if pointed out I think that the submitter should do some extra testing.

> Peter> That ofcause doesn't mean we shouldn't be careful, just that random
> Peter> breakage is to be expected.
> 
> Peter> I've been playing a bit around with buildbot (http://buildbot.net) -
> Peter> And that looks quite nice.


> 
> Peter> -- 
> Peter> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
> 


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson



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