Re: 3.2 release checkup

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 20/01/2012 10:20 a.m., Kinkie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My understanding is that no new/special dummy code is needed for Squid
>>>> on Windows in non-SMP mode. Bugs notwithstanding, non-SMP code should
>>>> work as well as before shared caching and other SMP features were
>>>> committed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the details. I guess we need an updated MinGW test run to see
>>> where the particular issues are and see if and why they exist.
>>
>> Currently trunk doesn't build on windows at all, mostly stuff at the
>> winsock api level.
>> The mswin branch
>> (http://bzr.squid-cache.org/bzr/squid3/branches/mswin) is currently a
>> 2.6k lines patch, and brings things a little further ahead, but not
>> quite enough yet as you can see here:
>> http://build.squid-cache.org/job/mswin-mingw/175/console
>> But it doesn't seem to make things worse on other platforms, so I'd
>> consider merging  back to trunk.
>>
>
> The mswin branch itself is a bit messy as we overlapped and incrementally
> fixed pieces. There are still some experiments in there that got pasted over
> with better fixes that made the experimental code irrelevant without
> removing the experimental bits.
> So I think it would be better to cherry-pick the changes to trunk and
> document each better with commit messages.

I can handle that.
In most cases what is needed is extra header files. Should I go
through the normal review process or are these harmless enough to be
merged directly?

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    /kinkie