Re: Starting work on strings from the scm side

Tom Lord <lord-1tv/[email protected]> writes:

>     > From: Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]>
>
>     > Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     > > Andreas Rottmann <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     > >> Now that object locks are basically in place, I could go
>     > >> ahead and do the string wrapping, catching up to what jao
>     > >> has done on the hackerlab side. OK?
>
>     > > I began work on strings and added the string type, but I
>     > > haven't done any work on wrapping the hackerlab operations.
>     > > I think Tom has merged these, but I could be mistaken.
>
>     > I know of your --strings branch and also thought Tom merged that, but
>     > apparently he did only up to patch-12 (in his scm--devo--0.1--patch21).
>
>     > I think it should cause no trouble if I merge in your --string branch
>     > into a newly created --string branch, branched off my --integration
>     > branch. However, if you'd like to carry on doing string work, I can
>     > search some other place to hack around.
>
> Just from the arch perspective ---  this is a case where if you merge
> in Jivera's changes as a starting point we'll be violating "star
> topology" and slightly complicating merges.   But arch copes with that
> well enough so it's no big deal.   Do whatever helps you make best
> progress and I'll worry about integration.
>
Well, as we just talked on IRC, there probably is no need to merge the
missing bits, since they are not string-data-type relevant.

Andy
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