[Serusers] serweb / Make a patch file

[Jan Janak]

[patch discussion moved to serdev at lists.iptel.org]

 Jan.

On 23-07 11:59, Marcelo Schmidt wrote:
> Agree.  In short you use preferably diff -u or diff -c and you apply the
> diffs with 'patch'.
> I don't have any samples right here but I am sure someone has some in
> the list.
> 
> -m
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Fausak [mailto:greg at august.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: Marcelo Schmidt; 'Jan Janak'
> Cc: 'Jiri Kuthan'; 'serusers'
> Subject: RE: [Serusers] serweb / Make a patch file
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've noticed that lately the list here seems to be
> getting a little short tempered. The main guys work very
> hard on this software.  Often they get the same questions
> over and over again.  Let's not forget that the authors
> of this software have worked thousands of hours for no compensation to
> write this.  They don't owe us anything, and we should really appreciate
> the donation!
> 
> There is some effort that must be expended to identify a
> bug, fix it, then provide a patch to the authors so that they can easily
> administrate the checkin to the source tree. Simply pointing out a bug
> to one of the authors is nice, but if you are capable it would be polite
> to go the extra few steps.
> 
> I've been writing software for 25 years, and I am not clear how to make
> a patch file.  Can someone provide an example :-)
> 
> Just my two cents,
> 
> ---greg
> Greg Fausak
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > You wrote this couple of weeks before: I have no crystal ball and I am
> 
> > not going to reply to this thread anymore... With the same info I sent
> 
> > you all, someone else "Jiri" found the problem
> > at that specific reply you wrote above.  Which it tells me you don't
> > know it all and you read email better.
> > If this is the way you try to provide any help, please don't help me.
> > 
> > -m
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan Janak [mailto:jan at iptel.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:50 AM
> > To: Marcelo Schmidt
> > Cc: Jiri Kuthan; serusers
> > Subject: Re: [Serusers] serweb
> > 
> > 
> > On 23-07 10:45, Marcelo Schmidt wrote:
> > > Well, right besides the method allow_call_time_pass_reference is
> > > deprecated in php4 but the latest version of serweb uses it anyway, 
> > > doh :)
> > 
> >   So what ? Fix it instead of complaining..
> > 
> > > And following the error log to what really matters:
> > > [Wed Jul 23 10:15:34 2003] [error] PHP Fatal error:  Call
> > to undefined
> > > function:  mysql_pconnect() in
> > > /usr/pkg/share/httpd/htdocs/iptel/phplib/db_mysql.inc on line 73
> > 
> >   install php mysql support.
> > 
> >     Jan.
> > 
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