At 10:32 23.06.2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>
> > At 05:43 PM 6/23/2003 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> > > Can someone explain why James just made it impossible to
> > > properly work with source code which resides in PHP 4 and 5?
> > >
> > > - diffing is impossible
> > > - merging is impossible
> > > - history of new commits becomes fragmented
> > >
> > > James, why did not you discuss this first? All opensource BSDs
> > > have been using _one_ source module since their inception.
> > > In the case of FreeBSD, that dates back to 1993, so this is
> > > clearly a proven model.
> > >
> > > What do the active developers on this list think?
> >
> > I am not quite sure how/what broke. However, no matter if what James did
> > was the right or wrong thing to do, I think it should have been discussed
> > first (in detail).
>
>A bunch of things are broken. Files are missing in php4 head and the
>wrong versions of files are also in there. I think we need to roll this
>change back as soon as possible and take another shot at this in a much
>more organized manner.
How about making patch from PHP_4_3 to new HEAD and reverse-apply it to
HEAD and commit...?
