On Tuesday 15 May 2001  3:59 am, Bruce Korb wrote:
> 1.  make a change that accomplishes a small goal:
>     o fixes a bug
>     o unifies common code into global macros
>     o moves towards a real program (as opposed to a shell
>       script emitter wrapped around the shell script).
>
> 2.  emit ltmain.in and verify that either the program will behave
>     identically to before, or the bug is fixed.
>
> 3.  check in the generated ltmain.in into the main line
>
> 4.  Repeat until done.
>
> That means that each step #1 should be small and safe.
> Thoughts?  :-)

Agreed.

The tricky part will be flushing the patch queue when your code is still on a 
branch, since you will likely have to port HEAD patchs into binary-branch so 
that the eventual merge is not too bad... 

Cheers,
        Gary.
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