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Re: [Pika-dev] Starting work on strings from the scm side
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Andreas Rottmann |
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Re: [Pika-dev] Starting work on strings from the scm side |
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Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:58:51 +0100 |
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Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> > From: Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden>
>
> > Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > >> Now that object locks are basically in place, I could go
> > >> ahead and do the string wrapping, catching up to what jao
> > >> has done on the hackerlab side. OK?
>
> > > I began work on strings and added the string type, but I
> > > haven't done any work on wrapping the hackerlab operations.
> > > I think Tom has merged these, but I could be mistaken.
>
> > I know of your --strings branch and also thought Tom merged that, but
> > apparently he did only up to patch-12 (in his scm--devo--0.1--patch21).
>
> > I think it should cause no trouble if I merge in your --string branch
> > into a newly created --string branch, branched off my --integration
> > branch. However, if you'd like to carry on doing string work, I can
> > search some other place to hack around.
>
> Just from the arch perspective --- this is a case where if you merge
> in Jivera's changes as a starting point we'll be violating "star
> topology" and slightly complicating merges. But arch copes with that
> well enough so it's no big deal. Do whatever helps you make best
> progress and I'll worry about integration.
>
Well, as we just talked on IRC, there probably is no need to merge the
missing bits, since they are not string-data-type relevant.
Andy
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Re: [Pika-dev] Starting work on strings from the scm side, Tom Lord, 2004/03/15