From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 19:45:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC2516A4CE; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:45:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A265D43D49; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:45:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j02JmOgF006333; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:48:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41D84F0F.9030505@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:44:15 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Campi References: <200501020521.j025LF68085390@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050102193354.GC50060@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <20050102193354.GC50060@webcom.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: Tim Kientzle cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:45:47 -0000 Andrea Campi wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:21:15AM +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >> First cut support for extracting from ISO9660 disk images. >> This seems to be able to extract a TOC and extract files from >> the couple of ISO images I've tested it with. >> >> Treat this as experimental proof-of-concept code for the >> moment. There are still a bunch of debug messages (there >> are a few oddities in ISO9660 that I haven't yet figured >> out how to handle), a lot of bugs to be addressed (this >> code leaks memory very badly), and a lot of missing features (no >> Rockridge support, in particular). I'd appreciate >> feedback from anyone who understands ISO9660 format >> better than I do. ;-) > > > I do appreciate your work on libarchive and bsdtar, and I'm very pleased > we have a totally BSD clean tar. > > However, it's always been my understanding that doing development > in the main repository was frowned upon. After all, that's the reason > why there's a projects sub-repository. I fail to see the reason for > committing this, or portability-only changes as you committed in the > past, as a work-in-progress when you could have kept it somewhere else > until such time as you were totally ready. > > Again: I like you work and I like this particular change, I'm mentioning > it now because I've thought about this again and again in several > instances. > > Bye, > Andrea > The various sub-repositories are tools. They exist and are provided to aid developers doing work, and while their use is greatly encouraged, it is not strictly required. CVS HEAD is still a developement branch, and as long as work going in there compiles and doesn't needlessly conflict or interfere with other parts of the tree, WIP commits like this are OK. Scott