On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:03 +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote:
Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to maintain programmes.
That's fine if you just want to jump ship to a new version. But what if the new version breaks some things, or changes behaviour in a way you don't want, or removes a feature.
If one compiled a 'new' version containing all those many existing patches, would not that 'new' version simply work exactly as the old version patched by countless alternations ?
If that's all you're doing, there's no pain in having the patches. But what happens if you don't want *all* the patches?
jh