Re: Building on 64 bit OpenBSD; ElfW

Adam Sjøgren writes: xemacs-patches is primarily part of the review workflow. Patches submitted with intent to commit will be reviewed there, but design discussion before submission (including proof-of-concept patches) takes place on xemacs-beta. So given the intention you describe, posting to xemacs-beta was the right thing to do. However, Mats is also right; if there is a working patch, and nobody's doing anything right away, xemacs-patches is where it will be found later. The only time a non-reviewer needs to follow xemacs-patches is when they have a patch actively in consideration, and then the normal practice is to leave you in the Cc list, so you probably don't need to subscribe. Regarding duplicates, among other things, the commit notices get posted there, as well as review notices (approvals and commits) etc. I trim; the commit bot and lots of people don't, so you'll see the same patch multiple times. We also have three more-or-less active branches (21.4, 21.5, and carbon2); patches will often be submitted for one of the above and only later determined to be relevant to others. carbon2 also gets synched to the mainline on a fairly irregular basis. No and no. You are not required to submit patches in exactly the right way. Your submissions are not moderated, and they will be considered when somebody has the time to do so, regardless of whether you follow the formatting recommendation. That is, if they are found in the place where we looking for unreviewed patches: our xemacs-patches folders. We don't have any experts on OpenBSD or 64-bit-cleanness AFAIK; therefore no magic will activate them. You misunderstand the situation, then. Jerry dropped the ball; after making some comments on the original report, he's been silent on the subject. That happens; we are all volunteers, after all, and sometimes real life takes precedence. When Mats recognized that, he stepped in to try to ensure that the patch stays on our radar, although he apparently doesn't have the expertise to review the patch himself. Isn't that the way things *should* work? I assure that is not true in my case. I do a build and test run before committing, which in this case means finding a place to install OpenBSD and installing it. Heck, before that, I'd need to find an installable distribution. (I don't expect that would be hard, but these little details add up to quite a time commitment.) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta