[haiku-commits] Re: r33814 - haiku/trunk/src/servers/app

  • From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:58:15 -0700

> There can always be changes that break something, but it's not a good
> idea to put something as complex and unfinished as this into a
> component as crucial and complex as the app_server.
> While trunk might be broken from time to time, and even unusable, we
> should always try to not commit something as complex and unfinished
> that affects just everyone.
> For this patch, it's a lot of work to get it right.
>
> I'm not sure if Christof or Hong are reading this list - I'll write a
> mail to haiku-development explaining the situation, and what has to be
> done.
>
> Bye,
>   Axel.
>
>
>

I have tried the Stack and Tile patch off and on for a few months now,
and after a month or so it get broken since trunk and the app server
and constantly moving forward and getting changes.  Hopefully having
it in the tree even if just on a branch will help to keep it updated
and in sync with changes make to trunk.  It's unfortunate that it
isn't self contained, but I don't know that with it needing to touch
so many different files that it could have been done in a way to be
self contained.
Perhaps having it parallel to trunk now, changes can more easily be
made that can help move it towards being self-contained, such as
moving general parts over to trunk that aren't 100% for stack and
tile, but are useful in general.  I haven't studied the code, but did
noticed that it touched on lots of files and seemed to be scattered a
bit.
Can we get a special nightly build set up that can build in the stack
and tile branch so that it can still continue to get user testing to
report bugs?
-scottmc

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