On Sep 2, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Maybe this is the source of some of my irritation with NetBSD and legacy ports. I actually grew up believing that you should _test_ changes youmake to code.
In general, yes, you should. However, if you have a set of code that is known to work on at least one or two platforms, and the changes to adapt others are completely mechanical, then compile testing is generally sufficient. The port maintainers can pick up any mess that might get made.
I'm more than happy to make changes and compile test only. After com(4), I have most of the tool chains already built. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
-- thorpej