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Re: lock/unlock filechannel Win32 implementation
David Daney writes:
> Marco Trudel wrote:
> >
> > In order to get the patch into GCJ, you will have to make copyright
> > assignment and then someone has to commit it for you.
> > Unfortunately the only one that seems to care about such things (Tom
> > Tromey) is away for a month.
I am here. I care.
> Not quite true, we do care. Tom being the maintainer may care slightly
> more, but he also has somewhat of an obligation to improve all aspects
> of libgcj. I am slightly reluctant to commit code that I cannot test,
> but I suppose that is not a good excuse.
>
> > So you will have to wait for him to come back (I'm already sitting on
> > 8 fixes that do not find it's way into GCJ because no one commits
> > them). Or is there someone else that might give a little help here?
> > Please!
The trunk is now open for commits.
Please forward a list of these patches, and I'll look at them. I
don't want to commit patches I can't test, but I am very eager to have
you helping: we desperately need a Windows gcj mainatiner.
Marco, I will do what I can to get you the help that you need.
> > Anyway, I included your patch in my newest built that I will release
> > quite soon (locking didn't work before, so it only can get better or
> > stay useless).
> If you have that many patches, and plan on contributing more,
> perhaps you should have commit rights so that you can commit them
> yourself. We really do want people that are working on the Win32
> port to contribute more. However there are (and rightly so in my
> opinion) some low hurdles you have jump over in order to get svn
> write access.
True.
Andrew.