Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Alex Shinn <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>> Alejandro Forero Cuervo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     > What percentage of the eggs in /release/3/ are
>     > currently different than those in /?  5%?
>
>  And what percentage of those can be accommodated with a
>  simple cond-expand in the source instead of a whole separate
>  branch?  It should be 100% - Chicken has extremely powerful
>  compile-time semantics - and this should also make
>  maintenance easier in those cases than maintaining two
>  branches.  Everybody wins.

There are people that would find this unacceptable. Keeping
backwards compatibility with cond-expand can result in
highly convoluted code.

>
>
>     > Alejo, who, very frustrated by this change
>
>  I share your frustration - enough so that I've just
>  temporarily put off all egg development to see how this all
>  plays out.
>

I don't think sulking will help. Can't you understand that
sometimes things have to be kept in a working state?


cheers,
felix