[PD-dev] devel branch

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds like a very good plan.

One possible difficulty is that Miller has a stable_0_40 branch now  
in addition to MAIN, and some patches are included in stable_0_40  
that are not in MAIN (yet?).

And an FYI: you could use the autobuild stuff as is, right now.

.hc


On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:

> Hi all,
> since things have been cleared up now, and obviously i have been  
> assigned the role of the "keeper of the devel", i'm thinking of how  
> to proceed with the mentioned branch.
>
> A few points i'm considering:
> - I have no interest in maintaining a branch open for the public,  
> when i'm the only user of it. It would be much more comfortable to  
> keep it at home, with all the freedom to make changes where i like,  
> not having to keep an eye on compatibility
> - I'd find it beneficial to integrate Miller's changes that  
> happened since the last merge
> - It would be nice to be able to provide patches of the devel  
> improvements for Miller, without investing a lot of time into it
> - I'd like to use the autobuild system
> - We need many of the extra features in devel for the vibrez  
> project, hence we have to keep them
>
> The following solution comes to my mind:
> - Make a list of things that are special for devel_0_39 (also  
> asking other devel contributors).
> - Branch off a devel branch (without version number) from Miller's  
> latest cvs
> - Gradually integrate the listed devel features into the branch,  
> and also making patches for Miller
> - Rethink some architectural details, like the SIMD infrastructure  
> (ability to inline functions and enable auto-vectorization)
>
> I think this is less work than merging in Miller's version into  
> devel and it also makes later incremental updates easier. Miller's  
> version and the devel branch can progress side by side.
>
> Any ideas, comments, lamento?
>
> best greeting,
> Thomas
>
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