Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:10:56 -0500

   I've been trying to make sure to migrate all my 1.6 patches to HEAD,
   but there are still some outstanding.  Of course some of the lag is
   because I'm not sure we'll want to handle things the same in 1.8.

hmmm, this is very different way of looking at things from what i would
expect...  i'm operating on the assumption that we want to look at
things from long-term perspective first and foremost, and interpolate
current decisions/activities from that.  that is, figure out LATER and
then figure out NOW as it relates to LATER, rather than the reverse.

in practice, this means changing HEAD branch to conform to LATER first,
and branch_release-1-6 to conform to NOW.  to me this seems like less
work.

thi