warning of pending commit attempt.

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:26:13PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>I speculate the majority of the user base don't actually need vimage.

You could probably say that about lots of base features.  Julian has
confirmed that it can be compiled out so I don't see this as a problem.

>It is reminiscent of the opening chapters of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's 
>Guide to the Galaxy", where notice of the change, to their mind, was posted 
>in a basement filing cabinet behind a locked door with a sign saying 
>"Beware of the leopard".

Hence this thread.  Anyone who is likely to be affected is supposed to be
reading this mailing list.  It's not clear what else Julian should do to
warn/inform people.

>Perforce doesn't really cut it for opening up code to the public at large, 
>as we have seen, and has real limitations, both in these terms and in terms 
>of its resource use.

The alternative is to put the code in CVS.  And from what I've read in
this thread, the code sounds like it's ready.  (Though making a patch
set generally available in the interim would probably be useful).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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