[HEADS UP] Merge of projects/gvinum to head

Ulf Lilleengen lulf at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 16 09:59:58 PDT 2009


On man, mar 16, 2009 at 04:58:00pm +0100, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a heads-up for a merge of gvinum project code into HEAD. This means
> that gvinum implementation will be changed some. The code is based on the
> work done by Lukas Ertl as well as the work I did before/during Google SoC
> 2007 and afterwards. It has been staying in p4 for some time, and then moved
> to the subversion project repository not long ago. The main reason for the
> delay of getting this into HEAD have been the lack of reviewers of the code,
> but after some discussion and help from testers, I've decided this is a good
> time to get it in (should perhaps have been merged a bit earlier) Testers
> have spotted several differences from the original gvinum, and I've tried to
> make it behave as the old implementation wherever that seemed the best way to
> go. Luckily, the work has gotten a bit of attention lately, thanks to Rick C.
> Petty for helping out with testing and bugfixing, as well as all others who
> have dared to run the new gvinum. So, what does this update offer?

And I plan on importing it within 1-2 weeks :)

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen


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