Re: Project leader candidacy

I'll be helping..maybe somebody else will join in too.


On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 16:39, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> 
> that's fine. But i develop on my local branch whether or not my stuff is 
> committed to cvs.  Not accepting changes because they may break win32 as 
> you re-introduce it (a mistake in my opinion anyway) will not save the 
> win32 port from being broken.  Eventually the changes will be committed 
> and unless win32 developers can actually keep up with the unix 
> developers, the port is going to fail again for the same reasons it 
> failed before.  As it stands, My todo list doesn't have interface 
> changes for some time.
> I don't think lesher's efforts are fruitless but i do think he needs 
> more active win32 developers to help handle the two fronts he's got to 
> face. You cant port to a new build system without being able to test the 
> building of the files, you cant build the files without updating them so 
> that they're compatible up to date with at least the bugfixes.  This 
> means incredibly slow progress with just one person so if zinf cvs 
> development is to be frozen someone better be helping lesher develop the 
> win32 port who has the power to freeze the code base.


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