[Mono-dev] Patches for mono-winforms

[Rob Wilkens]

There are patches that have been sitting around for years on git as pull
requests, admittedly not that many, but ....

This fix:


      Encoded mail headers fix (RCF2047 compliance)
      <https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/23>


was submitted as a pull request two years ago and is still sitting there
(nothing has changed in 8 months on it, no comments or anything)

Another three pull requests there were submitted a year ago and are
still sitting unacted on.

6 are 8 months old

there are at least a few that are 3-4 months old

etc.

-Rob

On 06/16/2012 11:30 AM, Steven Boswell II wrote:
> Are you saying that there have been bug fixes submitted to this
> mailing list, that have sat around for YEARS without being acted upon
> by those with version-control-commit authority...?
>
> I installed latest mono to /usr/local, compiled my test with "gmcs
> -out:DgvTest.exe Program.cs -r:System -r:System.Windows.Forms -r
> System.Drawing", and ran it with "mono DgvTest.exe", and it runs fine
> for me.  So I guess we're back to having an impasse.  Sigh.
>
> Steven Boswell
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Stifu <stifu at free.fr>
> *To:* mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 16, 2012 1:09 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Mono-dev] Patches for mono-winforms
>
> Honestly, you've had it much better than the vast majority. :)
> Some others have been waiting for years. Also, now you can add NUnit
> to your
> resume. :p
>
> Anyway, I get a "1-1: expected not null, found null" message box in
> DgvTest4
> with Mono, even after applying your patch.
>
>
> Steven Boswell II wrote
> >
> > I agree, but we both know how much toil it takes to get our bug fixes
> > accepted and applied to the git repository on this mailing list... ;-)
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >  From: Rob Wilkens <robwilkens@>
> > To: mono-devel-list at .ximian
> > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Patches for mono-winforms
> > 
> >
> > I know my opinion is of mixed value, but it looks to make sense to me.. 
> > If the toolstripitem is being changed so it no longer has an owner,
> > calculating a size might not make sense....
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > On 06/15/2012 08:34 PM, Steven Boswell II wrote:
> > [... Digging through the stack trace, I arrived at
> > System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.set_InternalOwner, where the
> owner was
> > being set to null, and right afterwards, CalculateAutoSize() was being
> > called.  Why would anyone need to calculate the size of a menu-item that
> > isn't even connected to a menu any more?  So, for me, the bug fix was
> > obvious: check if the owner isn't null before
> calling CalculateAutoSize().
> >  That's what the enclosed patch does. ...]
> >>
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