Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:14:31 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vertical split patch in sysutils/screen Message-ID: <20070217091431.GB64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <200701300132.l0U1Vxaj013854@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <20070129222655.GL64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200701300132.l0U1Vxaj013854@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Cy, Sorry for the late reply. On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:31:59PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <20070129222655.GL64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>, > Jeremie Le Hen writes: > > > Yes, I know the principle of upstream sources and I perfectly agree > > with you. However, I think the patch have already been brought to > ^^^^^ > Is it possible they have not looked at it yet? A friend has been using it for a while. > > attention of screen-devel@gnu.org. The problem is that this patch > > breaks some features, as described in the "Bugs" section of its > > webpage [1] and have this not been adopted. > > Would you have a PR number or something that I can follow up on at gnu.org? > Even better would be if someone could point me to any correspondence about > this on the screen-devel mailing list archvies. PR on savannah.gnu.org are very weak, not to say completely useless: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16319 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=15442 There are a couple of posts relating to the vsplit patch on screen-users@, the latest one being: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-08/msg00061.html There is nothing more on screen-devel@. > > I fully understand you don't want to break screen. However I am > > a user of this patch and I don't care about the broken features, > > and so does a friend of mine. I supposes there might be other users > > in this case, so I've made the patch. > > I'm sure others might be concerned about breakage even if you are not. > > > > > I would understand if you didn't want to commit this. However if > > you agree to commit it with a bug warning message, I can correct > > my patch to add this message in which I will detail the broken > > features. > > > > Please, let me know about your decision. > > I would rather not commit anything that would break the software, even if > the user has the option of knowingly and intentionally breaking it through > an option I provide. I don't know if the screen developers at gnu.org are > unwilling to incorporate the patch in the base software. I'm not enamoured > with the proposed patch. > > Unless the "Bugs" can be addressed I don't think it should be committed. Ok, I understand your point of view. I hope someone will take some time to fix the remaining issues soon. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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