Rainer Zocholl wrote: >>Then we'll be in patching hell, because patches will require proper >>ordering and depend on each other. > > Don't we have that already? > Does current patches do not change the ID or add a new? I currently use 5 patches regularly, with no collisions and no patch ordering dependencies. 3 of the 5 patch menu.c without collisions. None of them adds any kind of ID string. > Do you always know exactly which patches were manually applied, > say 3 weeks later...i wouldn't. Actually... My VDR + plugin sources are built from the tars by a prepare script so I can always reproduce the current code base, and I can easily upgrade to newer versions without loosing anything. I can reconstruct every major version I've used since end of January. Cheers, Udo