Xapian discuss - Jun 2015 - Future of the xapian-commits list

I spotted recently that since we switched to git, commit notifications
haven't been sent to the xapian-commits list.

We can probably install a hook for git to get them flowing again, but
given that none of the ~20 subscribers to the list has complained, I'm
wondering if a list for commits is still useful.  Perhaps with a
decentralised version control system it isn't, though the git.xapian.org
repo does still have a special status.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
    Olly

On 20 Jun 2015, at 06:22, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
wrote:
> 
> I spotted recently that since we switched to git, commit notifications
> haven't been sent to the xapian-commits list.
I certainly haven?t paid attention to it in years, so I?m +0 on not hooking it
up again.

J

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org

Dear Olly Betts,

I don't know if it would be of any use - and I know that
the configure script searches for gawk, sed and grep -
but Watcom has free 32 and 64 bit compilers, and
the msvc files for Xapian no longer appear to be
maintained, so perhaps Xapian build files written for
[Open] Watcom could be made, as such allocating also
for the zlib and libuuid dependencies.

Eric Lindblad

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:30:35PM -0700, Eric Lindblad
wrote:
> I don't know if it would be of any use - and I know that
> the configure script searches for gawk, sed and grep -
> but Watcom has free 32 and 64 bit compilers, and
> the msvc files for Xapian no longer appear to be
> maintained, so perhaps Xapian build files written for
> [Open] Watcom could be made, as such allocating also
> for the zlib and libuuid dependencies.
I would encourage anyone interested to try to get builds to work with
the existing build system.  It ought to be possible, and is likely to
require less effort than building and maintaining an entire parallel
build system.

Maintenance was the real problem with the "MSVC makefiles", and I
can't
see that being all that different just by changing the compiler that
you're building a parallel build system for.

Cheers,
    Olly