branch creation

[François Dumont]

On 01/16/2011 12:18 PM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    
>> Hello
>>
>>     I had plan to call it something like libstdcxx_debug-branch targetting several debug mode modifications. But if you want to use it for any kind of ABI modifications I see an already existing branch with a rather good name: libstdcxx_so_7-branch. It is documented as not maintained anymore, could we recycle it for this purpose ?
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> Sure we can, the only problem I can see is that few things in it, breaking the ABI for good, may be worth preserving in its new incarnation. The branch-specific ChangeLog should help about that. And probably you will also find something in<algorithm>  which we do not want to pursue, at the moment at least, that is the collapse of the algorithms coming in pairs, taking and not taking a predicate, because it's too tricky wrt proxy iterators. Are you willing to disentangle those issues? As far as<algorithm>  is concerned, probably you can just replace everything with the mainline version, as a start.
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I was actually wondering why almost all algos were duplicated, I will 
take a look to this branch to discover why then.
> I don't know, maybe it's easier to just create a so_7-2, document that the old one is frozen, and in a more relaxed way forward port the interesting bits of the old branch to the new one.
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If you want to keep things in this branch then I agree, 
libstdcxx_so_7-2-branch will be just fine. I have started to reproduce 
the patch I have submitted some weeks ago. Once done I will start the 
branch with that.

Regards