On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 15.06.2015 17:36, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > > On 12 June 2015 at 15:11, Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@wandisco.com> > wrote: > >> To be clear: You are proposing that the code on Windows > >> is fundamentally broken (revision contents not being > >> committed) while I think we "only" have a persistence > >> issue with renames. Since your business depends on > >> you being wrong, it would be in your best self-interest > >> to go and find out ... > >> > >> Of course, I could apply for an MSDN subscription, wait > >> for it be approved etc. but I think it would be fairer if you > >> could check the Windows side of things while I try to get > >> some answers for POSIX. > >> > > Am I understand you properly, that *your business* does not depend on > > Windows and you just do not care about this > > Ahem. So ... this has gone somewhat off the straight and narrow. Let's > leave business and self-interest out of this (all parties) and look at > the actual problem instead. > > We've always sort of assumed around here that whoever had the working > configuration/platform on hand would be more likely to be able to verify > some platform-dependent edge case or other. Windows is decidedly a bit > of a special case because, traditionally, setting up a build and test > environment for Subversion has been horribly complicated (as I handily > reminded myself just the other day as I was setting up a VM to get a > Windows vote in for 1.9.0-rc2 ... and I'll happily admit part of the > blame). > > Stefan, for the future, I do think it wouldn't hurt you to get your MSDN > subscription and set up a build environment if you intend to make > platform-dependent changes that can't be verified otherwise. That's just > common sense. As it's also common sense for Ivan to verify such changes > instead of placing all the burden on you. > > Not to go too far off-topic, but is it even true that you still need MSDN? I thought the compilers and build tools were available for free now? There is even a free version of Visual Studio that is fully functional. https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx Before this was available, I recall the SDK now includes the compilers and that is also freely available. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
