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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:00:09 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: cygwin patches integrating back into standard gnu
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>   1) most (upstream) maintainers want small, easily digestible patches 
> -- so mega-patches must be split up into functional units.

See, for instance, this week's libtool-patches mailing list.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-11/index.html

--
Chuck



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