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From: | Michael Godfrey |
Subject: | Re: Keeping the gui-release branch open considered harmful |
Date: | Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:21:13 -0500 |
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On 01/29/2015 05:50 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
An offer I'll probably regret:I'd even be willing to spend a little bit of time restoring the deprecated functions that have been removed in default (at least the ones for which that's a relatively trivial job).And finally, an optimistic statement that will probably turn out to be completely false:I don't know for sure since I haven't tried it, but I think that restoring the deprecated functions that were removed on the default branch should just be a matter of backing out some changesets that were made soon after the gui-release branch was created.jwe
John,I think that this makes clear that maintaining GUI and default is causing a lot more problems than it could possibly be worth. It is hard to imagine that doing a final merge and work form there
would be harder than dealing with all the divergent problems of 2 branches. Michael
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