[PD-dev] devel branch

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
>> and obviously i have been assigned the role of the "keeper of the  
>> devel",
>
> It's been a while that I've been thinking of you as the keeper of  
> the devel, and of myself as being a guest.
>
>> with all the freedom to make changes where i like, not having to  
>> keep an eye on compatibility
>
> Well, compatibility would be a lot easier if we had automated tests  
> like most programming languages have. (That's why I had started a  
> project called PureUnity)


How about finishing it and adding it to the nightly builds?

.hc



>> - I'd find it beneficial to integrate Miller's changes that  
>> happened since the last merge
>
> Agreed.
>
>> - Branch off a devel branch (without version number) from Miller's  
>> latest cvs
>
> I don't agree with that, I believe that it will be easier to merge  
> things the other way around.
>
>> - Gradually integrate the listed devel features into the branch,  
>> and also making patches for Miller
>
> Even though the 0.39->devel_0_39 is bigger, making patches for  
> Miller would be one reason to start the new devel branch from  
> Miller's 0.40, but I'm not going to encourage making patches for  
> Miller.
>
>> - Rethink some architectural details, like the SIMD infrastructure  
>> (ability to inline functions and enable auto-vectorization)
>
> What would change about those features? (are those things in  
> parentheses not implemented? I thought that auto-vectorisation was  
> already enabled?)
>
> I have an important question: which version of 0.39 was devel_0_39  
> branched off of?
>
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