[GRASS5] XDRIVER

[Justin Hickey]

Hello all

"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:47:53AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> >
> > Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > I agree with Glynn. Perhaps we only keep the fifo version in a
> > > subdirectory along with the established mechanism to activate it
> > > (Bernhard wants to keep fifos for old platforms) and put the
> > > sockets version into the default place. I guess that 99% of users
> > > want sockets.
> >
> > I wasn't necessarily suggesting removing/disabling anything. 
> > Rather, merging the alternate versions of each file into a single
> > file, with feature-test macros selecting which version was actually
> > used.
> >
> > OTOH, if only a small fraction of users will want something other
> > than sockets, it may not be worth the effort.
> 
> There are some pretty substantial differences between the drivers. 
> Not to mention the same would have to be done for the libraster, and
> the driverlib used by CELL/HTMLMAP/PNG drivers.  Easier just to
> remove the cvs versions of the files that get swapped during
> configure.  There's a copy of each fifo/ipc/socket variant in a
> separate subdirectory, which are the only copies that need to be
> maintained.

This was discussed before and it was agreed that the fifos would remain
for 5.0 but be removed for 5.1 barring any further problems with
sockets. To solve Glynn's problem can we use

cvs update -P

to remove the files before committing? Or does -P only work with
directories?

-- 
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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