Re: [Axiom-developer] patches

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

| On August 8, 2006 4:02 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > 
| > > I would like to ask the other Axiom Developers for their opinion
| > > about how best to handle these sort of changes to documentation
| > > in the Axiom source distribution: Should we accumulate and review
| > > the changes online and only then apply a cumulative patch to Silver
| > > and Gold?
| > 
| > I would very much like that there is only ONE version, namely 
| > axiom--test--1 editable through the wiki and that version is 
| > always in sync with a branch (call it silver/branches/axiom--test--1)
| > on our subversion repository.
| 
| I rather dislike these weird "arch" names. Perhaps we can define
| a new branch in Silver specifically for this purpose? On the other
| hand having too many branches seems like the same kind of "trap"
| that we got into with arch - defining branches and then no one
| shows up to maintain them and no one bothers to merge them etc.
| Maybe we should just sync the Silver main branch.

I'm for that.  If the silver branch is supposed to be the "live"
source, then I see no reason to branch from different places.

I hope to have enough cleanup on build-improvements, so that we can
merge part  of the work there.

-- Gaby