On Saturday, Mar 20, 2004, at 21:47 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Basically, the code from the original source is maintained in a separate branch, while we work on the MAIN branch (which is the default). Then we 'cvs import' new versions from the source into that separate branch and merge changes into the MAIN branch.
This sound cool, without having read this.
I'd like to announce another idea I had tonight while out clubbing (forgive me, if it doesn't make sense because of this...)
I wonder, if an "installer" branch would make sense. In this branch, the package maintainers could make changes that ease packaging, like for example unifying variables in Makefiles and so on. Later this could be merged to upstream.
Good idea?
You think about installers while clubbing? ;) Anyway, I don't think its really necessary to have a separate branch. The installer-specific files are in their own directories and usually, the changes that I need to make when making the installers are generally helpful, ie making things easier to build, etc.
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