DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2008-11
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2008-11
[Date Prev][Date Next]  [Thread Prev][Thread Next]  [Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Repository changes coming up


From: "Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:42:48 +0800

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Matthias Schmidt
> <matthias@dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> * Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>>>
>>> Should we import certain version of git into base system?
>>
>> Do we really need to import git into the base?  Users which are upgrading from
>> a non-git release could use the pkgsrc version and for new users (e.g. after
>> 2.2) we can install the pkgsrc git package during the CD bootstrap.
>>
>> Maintaining git in the base adds another third party piece of software we have
>> to maintain.  If we take it from pkgsrc, we don't have to care about updates

BTW, pkgsrc scmgit's updating is not controlled by us, so why should
we risk our project's SCM?

>> etc.
>
> My concern are:
> 1) git is kept developping, but we obviously do not need to keep
> tracking it (I think they have made some "big" change in 1.4->1.5).  I
> don't think keep tracking a floating target is good for a project's
> SCM.
> 2) No tool after the default install could check out the default repository?
>
> Best Regards,
> sephe
>
> --
> Live Free or Die
>



-- 
Live Free or Die



[Date Prev][Date Next]  [Thread Prev][Thread Next]  [Date Index][Thread Index]