Development plan -- time to move forward

[Kevin E Martin]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:07:55PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The question that I posed is: can we live with the implicit dependency
> > on the Makefiles and the cluttered CFLAGS, both of which we have lived
> > with for many years in the monolithic tree, with the caveat that we will
> > add AM_CONFIG_HEADER support right after the initial modular release?
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> The problem with this theory is that it will then forever cause
> gratuitous differences between otherwise identical files between the
> trees, as soon as these go into the modular tree.
> 
> I think it optimistic not to expect people to continue to use the
> monolithic tree for quite a while during a conversion process that has
> so many different platforms; making it simple to have patches to apply
> to both trees during a more extended transition period seems wise to me.
> 
> If one tree has these additions, and the other does not, then we are
> back to a manual patching process, even if the identical patch would
> otherwise apply to both trees....

That's a good argument.  However, I think it will become increasingly
difficult to keep the differences small as development continues in the
modular tree, but hopefully by that time, most platforms will be fully
supported.  So, I'm okay with it.