Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

[root]

> Gosh, I forgot the real thing.  
> It is there, real this time.

2 points,

1) did you test the patches? did you do a full system erase,
system checkout, system build, system test? 

2) you changed not only the current system (gcl-2.6.8pre) but
the previous system (gcl-2.6.7). did you test both versions?

i know this seems like such a trivial patch that it "ought" to work
but remember that you're asking for changes to a system that many
people you might never meet are using. 

as a matter of policy changes need to be fully tested. 
because you changed gcl-2.6.7 i'll actually have to do a 
round-trip rebuild of a gcl-2.6.7 system as well as a gcl-2.6.8pre
system. i do testing every time. and it takes a lot of time.
but you'd be amazed at the number of ways things can break.
witness the mistake i made (despite my best efforts) when
i posted a broken --patch-48

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