[Zlib-devel] Fwd: mingw cross-compilation patches

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com> schrieb:

> I think the preferred workflow is still to send patches to the mailing
> list. 

Depends on your intention. If you just propose them for mainline
submission and Mark still wants it that way, you're right. But if
you intend a wider audience (eg. downstreams like me), git might
be a big help for them.

I, personally, don't like to extract patches out of mails and
try out on which exact version the apply properly. Instead I prefer
using git (and maybe a few lines of shell glue code) to do that
job automatically for me.

> For only a couple of patches a git repo is a bit overkill and I
> find that branching on github and making a pull request there bypasses
> most of the valuable input from the mailing list.

All you have to do is putting your repo to some place where others
can pull (can even be a plain webserver) and tell us the URL of it.
(the URL is only needed once, the rest is done by git-remote-update
automatically)


cu
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