Re: Carbon port and multi-tty

[David Kastrup]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd really really like to stop.  Just one thing.
>
>>>>>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:42:15 +0200, David Kastrup <address@hidden> said:
>
>> Large amounts of work for some programs go into supporting things
>> like compatibility with Windows or XEmacs or similar where the
>> developers themselves are not actually using the platform in
>> question.
>
> I really respect such efforts, and I think I understand that to some
> extent because I've been supporting several older versions of OSes or
> configurations that I don't usually use.
>
> Again, I'm saying about mixing unrelated changes, not about the
> breakage on a particular platform that I'm working on.

We are talking about CVS here, not git.  There is no good off-line way
to clean up and reorganize patch sets before committing.

And you have been foaming at your mouth for some dozen mails here in the
abstract before finally coming up with the information that all that
bile centered around a single line in a 1000+ line change.

I mean, get real.  That's an excellent ratio of problematic lines per
work done.  In particular when the developer does only have spurious
knowledge of the platform and limited testing possibilities.

-- 
David Kastrup