On 10.01.2011, at 11:58, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Chris Muller wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Levente.  However, since the trunk update merges everything
>> into our images anyway, it didn't seem necessary to be as eager about
>> merging as I used to be, especially when they are small, distant
>> changes.
> 
> IMHO every package in the Trunk should always have one head version. Why?
> - it's error prone if it's not. I had to merge System-dtl.408 manually yesterday because the update process didn't do it for me. So my fully updated image didn't have that, but it had System-bp.408.
> - non-core developers may be confused by this and not contribute, or start merging in the Inbox which should never happen IMHO. Merging should be done by the integrator and in the Trunk only. If someone merges in the Inbox, then the integration will be much harder.
> 
>> 
>> I'd had a copyright notice change in System for 2011 year change and
>> thought I'd wait a bit to see if anything else comes in.
>> 
>> I like to be lazy like this in particular with the Morphic package
>> because it's so large (and MC so inefficient in storing whole copies
>> of packages even when only one line changes..).
> 
> While the Morphic package is large, the updates people download are usually just diffs (mcd) which are small.
> 
> 
> Levente


What he said. 

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