[Libosinfo] [v3 2/3] Adapt windows-unattend.xml for Windows 8

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Feb 26 14:39:21 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>> Yes, I indeed first tried the win7 script as is and that failed. I
>>> slowly changed things one by one (looking at hints from random
>>> websites) and after these changes, win8 express installation worked.
>>>
>>> This patch was written and sent here more than a month ago and now I
>>> don't really remember justification for each change (assuming that I
>>> knew it even then). I'll have another look and see if i can put
>>> something but 'making win8 express installation work without breaking
>>> it for win7' is already a good enough argument to me.
>>
>> A commit log is not just about 'why should this change be committed?', but also
>> about 'why is the commit doing things this way?', which would make it
>> easier for you to remember the justification for these changes, and which
>> would also help anyone looking at this commit get an idea of why this was
>> needed.
>
> I understand and I wasn't exactly disagreeing with you on importance
> of providing details in the log. I was only saying that I'll try my
> best to give the justification for each change but can't guarantee
> that I'll be able to do a good job. :)
>
>> Also, using a win8 script on win7 does not work?
>
> Nope IIRC but I'll try again to be sure.

While modifying this patch to try this out, I now clearly remember
each of these changes (there are actually only 2 real changes)
breaking win7 installer. So not motivated to try yet again. Feel free
to challenge my claim/memory and try.

>> The install scripts are
>> unreadable enough that the less conditional stuff we add, the better )
>
> Agreed.

Still agree but in this case they are justified.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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