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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:18:26 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Stan Shebs wrote:
> (and to any automated tools that browse source files), and leaves
> everything exactly in place, so that the future would-be reviver
> can recover the config from the last release before final deletion,
> simply by reverting the edits.
People can recover the files from the last pre-deletion revisions in CVS -
and should do so, rather than using a release, given that global changes
(obsoleting a target macro, etc.) are applied across all relevant targets,
obsolete or otherwise, so a version in a release will not be a final
version. Given CVS, doing edits to the files before deleting them seems
pointless - as those edits make the target non-buildable in that release,
why not simply document that the target is obsolete and that certain files
should be retrieved from CVS to attempt to build it (along with a URL for
the patch that removed the target, to give information about any other
associated changes that might need reverting)?
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk