Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 00/39] Reimplement backup-files in bash

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Raphael,

On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:26:47 am Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Lastly there is a huge list of cleanup and performance improvement
> > patches. I will provide real world and accurate numbers later, but
> > as a quick summary, Debian's version was very slow (as in ~100
> > times slower than the C implementation when dealing with large file
> > lists), while mine is only marginally slower (as in ~2 times), to a
> > point where nobody will notice in practice.
> >
> > Almost all patches have already been reviewed by Raphael Hertzog,
> > but I would welcome further reviews and comments.
> 
> I have not seen any further review since you posted it. Please
>  consider merging it.
> 
> And it would be nice to have a new quilt release with this code.

You're preaching the choir here. The lack of release is actually what 
prevented me from committing my changes. It is a large and intrusive 
change, no matter how much care I put in it and how much testing I gave 
it. Unfortunately, with no release in 2.5 years, it's pretty clear that 
most distributions are packing development repository snapshots and not 
version 0.48. So many users are likely to receive my commits very 
quickly. I'm not sure if we want this.

Andreas, do you have a release schedule for quilt? I think a new version 
is long overdue. Once we have a new release, I'll be happy to commit my 
work.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3