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[FYI] new branch "java-gui-branch" |
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Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:37:47 -0500 |
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hi,
I've been talking recently with some of the other Red Hat people tasked
with working on java GUI technology -- AWT and Swing -- and we've come
to the conclusion that this work would be accelerated a bit if we
temporarily relocated to a secondary branch, the goal being to improve
the inter-group communication and minimize idle time associated with
mainline's (rightly) conservative review and approval process.
unless someone has a serious objection, I would like the rules for this
branch to be as follows: you can commit your work without per-patch
review, assuming you're patching or adding files you're "supposed" to be
working on (in java/awt, gnu/java/awt, javax/swing, etc.), but please
continue to send patches showing the changes you make to
address@hidden, so that interested parties can review your
work chronologically.
we'll do bulk merges back into the mainline (and classpath) once the
activity settles down a bit, but at somewhat larger intervals. if you
commit code which breaks, we'll sort it out on IRC or mailing lists. the
intention here is to try to build up the GUI libraries *fast*, and
communicate all our work to one another as quickly as possible.
this branch only applies to the gcc/libjava module; to move your working
copy to this branch, do the following:
$ cd $SRCDIR/gcc/libjava
$ cvs update -r java-gui-branch
you can check to see that your files moved to the new branch using the
"cvs status" command, as such:
$ cvs status Makefile.am
===================================================================
File: Makefile.am Status: Up-to-date
Working revision: 1.361
Repository revision: 1.361 /cvs/gcc/gcc/libjava/Makefile.am,v
Sticky Tag: java-gui-branch (branch: 1.361.2)
Sticky Date: (none)
Sticky Options: (none)
the thing to look for being the "sticky tag", set to java-gui-branch.
-graydon
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