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[Alfred Perlstein]

On 6/8/14 1:13 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
>
> El 6/8/2014 2:14 PM, Alfred Perlstein escribió:
>>
>> There has to be a way to call out what works and what doesn't work and
>> form a transition from a world with no ASLR to one with some ASLR and
>> eventually one with almost entirely ASLR coverage.  I'm not sure it can
>> be done in one fell swoop.  Hooks like this in -current allow for this
>> to be done as a group effort.
>>
>> It would be very unlikely that we retain the semantics all the way until
>> a -stable release.
>>
>
> I am not (yet) criticizing the patches to the build system as I want 
> to preserve my innocence ;) ... but perhaps if the semantics are not 
> finalized this should be done in a branch. It is my opinion that in 
> general we are not using SVN branches as much as we should.
>
IMO branching is great for something that causes instability, known 
performance issues or won't build.  This is not the same as "changes 
build system".

Putting things like this on branches is likely a good way to imo kill 
discussion.

Right now we have discussion, it's rather healthy.  Let's take a while 
to think about this before saying this all should be done in a branch.

-Alfred