From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-05-26T08:47:11+09:00
Subject: Re: shim for select() for VMS & general porting questions

Hi,

At Thu, 26 May 2005 01:57:45 +0900,
BG - Ben Armstrong wrote in [ruby-core:05098]:
> The DECC man page for select() says that I need to #include <time.h>.
> So the above won't compile.  If I include time.h here, though, every
> routine will have it included.  Is this desirable?  Or should this stuff
> be in a separate .h and only included where select() is actually used?

missing.h included by ruby.h should define it.

> I'm also uncertain where this stuff all properly belongs.  There is a
> vms/vmsruby_private.c for which I see no equivalent file in other ports.
> There are no comments explaining what the file is for, so it is not
> clear what the author's intent was in designating these as "private".

I did see just CVS trunk, not 1.8 branch.  Those apparently
haven't been committed to the trunk yet, irregularly.  I added
them to the trunk now.

> So, where do we go from here?  We'd like for all of our work on the VMS
> port to date, along with this patch, to eventually be merged upstream.
> However, this is all new territory for us, so any general tips you can
> give on the process of developing a port and submitting changes would be
> welcome.  It's too bad we've lost touch with Masamichi, or we'd have
> talked to him about this.  But ever since he indicated he couldn't work
> on the project any longer, we haven't heard from him.  Unfortunately
> this means we don't even have his latest working copy of source, from
> which he produced the last build listed on his site.  So any changes we
> might have benefitted from in that last release are lost.

I think, all non-trivial changes must be committed and tested
in the trunk, and should be backported to stable branches
later, unless it will be definitely obsolete in the future.

-- 
Nobu Nakada