Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Sorry for the intrusion, but...

Hey Rob, can we please get back to the subject in hand. This is really 
getting ridiculous, I've done nothing to earn the kind of venom that I'm 
getting here and certainly not from you.

> So what makes you so special that unlike EVERYONE else, you don't have to 
> commit to HEAD. What makes things more difficult? People who are not 
> committing to HEAD gets everything out of whack and causes a problem for 
> everyone else.

How? Seriously, how is it causing anyone a problem?

You are not the only person working on things here. Greg
> is the phar maintainer, and if there is a problem due to the current state 
> of the engine and he is taking the responsibility to deal with HEAD then 
> that is his choice - assuming its not breaking the build.

Sorry to ruin the fantasy but I have responsibility for that, that's exactly 
why I was pushing MONTHS AGO to get HEAD up to par - y'know, when I fixed 
the test suite there and made the tests unicode-only and delivered a huge 
patch to remove the switches from core? We have well over 20% test failures 
in phar in HEAD, hopefully all due to problems in the Engine and not in the 
extension but **I can't tell** because the Engine problems generate so much 
noise. Using bullying tactics isn't going to change that one whit. Fixing 
the Engine, would.

> see no one else having problems making bug fixes and/or changes in HEAD 
> anywhere else; I am building HEAD and testing out my changes there.

Great, so you have the means to do that. I don't - technically, for the 
reasons given above or pragmatically, because I'm working with a whacked-out 
laptop and have bugger-all means of replacing it. It chokes when it builds, 
it chokes when it checks out, it overheats at least 8 times during the 
course of a day. I'm not "not committing to HEAD", but I do have to decide 
which branch I'm working on in any given day because otherwise I wouldn't 
have time to do anything other than testing. And I'm certainly not up for 
committing stuff there that isn't 100% cleared in 5_3 because there's every 
chance I'll need to revert it in the next few days anyway. So, hobby-horse 
aside for a minute, and can we please get back to the question of what is 
actually needed from the dependency function that it doesn't currently 
offer?

> As you aren't willing to work with HEAD like everyone else, please just 
> send patches for any changes outside of phar. Sorry to sound harsh here 
> but you are not the only person working on this stuff and everyone else 
> here is keeping the changes in sync amongst the branches.

Even ones that don't work? I noticed the crap I want gone from the extension 
configs isn't in HEAD, for one.

- Steph
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