Building on Windows from scratch - guile problem SOLVED

[Gary Bilkus]

On 18/01/2014 09:53, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Friday 17 January 2014 07:30:00 John Ralls wrote:
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> > > OK Geert,
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> > > I think I have what you want at
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> > > http://www.greenwheel.com/publicFiles/rebase-patches.zip Let me
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> > > know if this works for you.
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> > > Not being a git expert, it's possible I've not quite done the right
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> > > thing, but I think this should be OK.
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> > As another option, perhaps the most "git-ish" (sorry) of all, would be
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> > for Gary to get a (free) Github account, fork Geert's repo, make his
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> > branch, push that back to *his* repo, and then from Github send Geert
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> > a pull request.
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> > I know I've argued against allowing this in the past, but I'm coming
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> > around to the idea that we need to make it easier for folks to offer
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> > patches.
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> Heh, I didn't want to propose this exactly because of your opposition 
> in the past. But I have been thinking of leveraging github's pull 
> requests as well.
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> I see for example that swig is using this approach rather succesfully. 
> I can imagine that a project the size of a linux kernel needs some 
> stricter rules to keep organized. But GnuCash is pretty small in 
> comparison. Reminds me we still have to discuss our future branching 
> strategy, but that's for another thread.
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> Back to the patches at hand:
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> Gary, I tried to download the zip file you made available, but I get a 
> permission error on that website. Can you check that ?
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> Geert
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Sorry Geert, forgot to add read perms to the file. Should be OK now.
Gary