[Ns-developers] [Bug 370] ipv4-interface.h is installed

[Raj Bhattacharjea]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/3/2 Raj Bhattacharjea <raj.b at gatech.edu>
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>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Raj, I need your permission to commit the patch to fix the P2 bug.
>> >
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>> This is a notification that Gustavo has the tree for pushing this fix.
>>  Everyone else please refrain from commits while Gustavo has the
>> token.
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> Oh, we are dealing with "tokens" now?  I thought a DVCS was supposed to save
> as from this archaic nonsense of us doing work that should be done by
> computers... :-)
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> Anyway, you can have your token back; I am done.
>

The logic behind this is testing.  The full regression suite on
ns-regression takes hours to run; if others commit changes while you
are running the regression on your (now stale) copy of ns-3-dev, there
is no guarantee that a merged branch (their changes + yours) will now
ALSO pass the regression tests.  So you would have to pull, merge, and
run the test again for a few hours.  When you are done, if someone
else has pushed changes, you waste more hours waiting for the
regression test to finish.

It is archaic, but has utility.  I don't think any VCS could solve
this problem for us.

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Raj Bhattacharjea
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate
Systems Analyst
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