>Has anyone tried merging (via CVS or by hand) pl9 into a >heavily-modified >version of pl8? How difficult did it turn out to be? How stable was the >resulting server? In what areas of code did the merge become tricky? That's exatly what I did.... It was a pain in the neck. BUT, it did teach me to be organized in my coding and to fully remark everything I code for the rest of my life ::grin:: It actually wasn't too hard. I did it by hand, it took me 8 hours. What I ended up doing was this - I Diff'd my modified pl8 code against a "stock" pl8, the results being everything I'd changed in pl8. Then I manually put that code into pl9. The results? Actually a better server, and fully documented changes. While moving the code I was able to fix little things in my code which I hadn't noticed before. Also, I remarked EVERY section of code I changed or added. This will make it a heck of a lot easier in the future to move the code from patch level to patch level. One thing though - Unless you are a VI god and like popping back and forth between files, you really need Xwindows, or be able to FTP the files back and forth from a windows machine. You really need to be able to look at your old code, the stock code, and the new code to make sure you don't miss anything. - Brian
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