I am still at work. Let me check later what the differences are.

Am 8. Juni 2026 15:58:12 MESZ schrieb Peter Kovacs <[email protected]>:
>Hi Jim,
>I answer quickly ...
>
>
>Am 8. Juni 2026 14:17:21 MESZ schrieb Jim Jagielski <[email protected]>:
>>Over the last month while working on the various Python and Aarm64 stuff, it 
>>made me really, really aware of just how divergent the AOO42X and trunk 
>>branches have become. A lot, and I mean a LOT, is just whitespace changes, 
>>but that causes any really analysis regarding the differences between the 2 
>>to be loaded with a lot of noise.
>>
>>So what to do...?
>The branches trunk and AOO2XX are not equal. Not everything has been added to 
>the release branch, in order to avoid unnecessary delays. The idea was fix the 
>regressions and then get the 4.2.0 out.
>
>But since everyone works on something different, more pressing changes, more 
>interesting changes, the 4.2.x branch stalled.
>
>What are you comparing the 2 branches for?
>>
>>Option 1:
>>  Branch off the new trunk off of AOO42x and then backport functional changes 
>> of the old trunk to new trunk? Keep old trunk as 'old-trunk'
>>
>>Option 2:
>> Backport all the whitespace differences to AOO42X, even if they collide or 
>> reverse the more "correct" fixes in AOO42X.
>>
>>My preference would be Option 1, since I think it _might_ be easier and, I 
>>think, the whitespace changes in AOO42X are the more correct and the more 
>>recent.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>--
>>Jim
>>  "This is an outrage!"
>>                        Tony Harrison
>>
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