My next question concerns what commits to cherry-pick. Since TOPCAT 4.0
is not ready I'm adopting the same approach as for Kapuahi of excluding
TOPCAT et al. revisions, as requested by Mark. This was straightforward
for Kapuahi. Now it's somewhat harder.
There are fuzzy areas combining edits to different packages in a
revision which are apparently relevant to SPLAT. For instance there are
combined VOTable/TOPCAT/ttools revisions by Mark, e.g. 10353, 10356,
10357, 10359, 10364, 10390; picked up later by SPLAT (10375, 10376,
10386). Likewise there is mixing for SAMP (10336) later revised by
Peter (10415). While there are revisions that are purely VOTable (e.g.
10347--9, 10355). It's not at all clear to me whether I can omit ones
that have any TOPCAT, ttools, and possibly table changes, or even pick
pure VOTable revisions without affecting applications deleteriously.
I have compiled a list of pure SPLAT revisions on the trunk (10314,
10315, 10332, and 10403) but seek advice please from the authors which
other revisions since 10286 should be included in Hikianalia? Some of
the hybrids are merely updates to the TOPCAT and ttools manuals but
including those might confuse TOPCAT users. While I can guess, a poor
selection might cause Starjava apps to fail.
Thanks,
Malcolm
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