Re: [patch 00/16] Portability Patches for git-1.7.1 (v4)

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:19:22AM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

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Furthermore, if we do take such changes, how are we going to manage
portability going forward? Some constructs (like non-constant
initializers) make the code much easier to read. People _will_ submit
patches that use them. Is somebody going to be auto-building on all of
these platforms with vendor compilers to confirm that nothing is broken?

And that's fine.  People who are trying to build will notice the
breakage on their platforms and likely submit patches in due course.

That was sort of implicit in my questions. _Is_ there somebody who is
going to be building on these platforms that will notice the breakage?

But it sounds from the rest of your mail like you are willing to do so,
which is at least encouraging.

-Peff