[Catalyst] FW: Clustering catalyst apps

[Matt S Trout]

Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> On 10 May 2006, at 16:28, Matt S Trout wrote:
> 
>> Len Jaffe wrote:
>>> Don't you know?  You aren't really supposed to patch
>>> open source code. Only free software.  If you patch
>>> open source code, the maintainers roll their eyes at
>>> you and sigh or mutter.
>> I thought that was the unquiet dead that did that.
>>
>> Anyway, it's GPL, so it's free software too. *disappears in a puff  
>> of logic*
> 
> Given that it's *years* since I did a diff in anger, a quick recipe
> on how to submit patches would be welcome...

If they have an svn repo I usually check it out, edit in place and send 
an svk diff

If not, unpacking the tar, cp -pR ing it to -orig, and doing a diff -ur 
across the two dirs when done seems to be ok. However, a lot of authors 
are *incredibly* picky about what diff options you use, so I find you 
usually have to re-send at least once with some option you've never 
heard of added to the list :)