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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:48:55 -0600
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Subject: Re: Where do we put it?  (Was Re: [jchevm] Porting JCHEVM to OSX/PPC)
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Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Dec 5, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
>> Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>>
>>>>>> I stripped out lots of ELF specific stuff, so my version could be
>>>>>> interesting for a port to windows too. I just don't want to   
>>>>>> commit it
>>>>>> to "trunk" yet because it's completely untested.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You could create a branch to play with in Subversion. If you do,
>>>>> I recommend also using svnmerge... http://dellroad.org/svnmerge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good Idea, but where would I place that branch?
>>>> "harmony/enhanced/branches/sandbox/contribs/jchevm/osx_port"?
>>>>
>>>> I'll look at the rest of the issues later...
>>>
>>> Is there a way to safely get this code in the main trunk?  I  don't  
>>> mind (what about others?) if you need to work in the corner  of the  
>>> sandbox, but this seems like enhancement to the trunk  rather than a  
>>> revolutionary experiment...
>>
>>
>> That's OK with me, but since it's still "completely untested" it seems
>> like a branch may be better... but in any case, if there is some  
>> uncertainy,
>> why not create a branch? Branches are essentially zero cost with  
>> Subversion,
>> even if it's only for a short while to get things "in order", etc.
> 
> How about testing it? :)

Sure.. but for that to happen, the patches have to be committed somewhere
first (let's try to avoid emailing patches around and use SVN instead).

> I believe that the changes shouldn't break jcheVM on platforms other  
> than OSX/PPC, but if they don't work yet on OSX/PPC, that's fine.    If 
> that can't be done - if David can't do that, then maybe a sandbox  is 
> right, but at some point, it *has* to come back to the tree, which  
> means that it doesn't break the existing code, and I think that if we  
> can do that now in the trunk that's better.

OK, that's fine with me.

> We'd like to have a culture of "check in stuff that doesn't break  
> others", but "commit early and often so others can see and work with  
> what you are doing"

I couldn't agree more. This is exactly what branches allow you to do :-)

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com