From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 9 3: 1: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C2237B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id B3995313D; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:01:03 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:01:03 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs mailing list for RELENG_4 only? Message-ID: <20010309110103.E40040@tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Dan Langille , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200103091053.f29ArAw87186@ns1.unixathome.org>; <20010309105531.D40040@tao.org.uk> <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mR8QP4gmHujQHb1c" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --mR8QP4gmHujQHb1c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote: >=20 > > > > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but > > > > this means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's possible > > > > for a committer to affect more than one branch at a time. > > >=20 > > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to l= ook > > > closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or compile= the > > > XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created. > >=20 > > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO. How > > that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a differe= nt > > question. >=20 > Agreed. Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do. = =20 > Having access to the original data at message generation time is the=20 > ideal situation. I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this=20 > application precisely. The good thing about generating XML is that it can be hardcoded if necessary, whereas it's probably easier to use a library to decode it. If we needed to install a library on the machine that's running CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA. Joe --mR8QP4gmHujQHb1c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqot+8ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYwGwCfTdArc/Sms6k9eK/wk8HeLqZ2 t2kAoMswo0tQE9e2GIfXbdMqdIL2B+ko =OrNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mR8QP4gmHujQHb1c-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message