Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 12:44:15 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_cvs_all@webcom.it> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_iso9660.c Message-ID: <41D84F0F.9030505@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050102193354.GC50060@webcom.it> References: <200501020521.j025LF68085390@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050102193354.GC50060@webcom.it>
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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. Scotthome | help
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