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On Thursday 14 April 2005 23:26, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:48, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> > Anyway, any objections against moving the current USE_EXPAND out of |
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> > make.globals and into base's make.defaults? Those using <=2.0.50* won't |
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> > get any additions (how it is now anyway) and anybody using a stacked |
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> > profile (which requires >=2.0.51) will get whatever is in make.globals |
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> > overwritten with whatever is in make.defaults. |
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> Just to be specific on this, the corner case is users still using a flat |
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> profile that upgrade to 2.0.51.20. Those users won't have USE_EXPAND active |
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> _at all_. The flat profile cannot be fixed for this because of a bug in |
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> 2.0.50 that'll make it traceback on any operation. |
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If this actually scared anybody (that received it), my apologies. I was |
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confused about bugs. Fixing the flat profiles will be problem either. The bug |
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is that 2.0.50 will die if two profiles in a cascade define the same |
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variable. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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