From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9port lacks exportfs server
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:05:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081101190557.GB27416@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225401310.32662.34.camel@goose.sun.com>
* Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> > I'd like to vote against feeding up p9p with more things,
> > instead split it up into smaller pieces. Modern distros tend
> > to have quite convenient package management systems ;-p
>
> I really fail to see what is your problem here. There's no
> rule that source code repository has to correspond 1-1
> to the binary package. In fact, it is quite common
> to use a single repository for producing a number of
> different binary packages.
Besides the fact that I'm not making binary packages at all,
splitted / small sources make packaging a lot easier.
> One of the biggest mistake an open source distro maintainer
> could make is to assume that his role is trivial. It is not.
If the source is well designed, it actually *is* trivial ;-p
> As a software developer, not a user, I do have a different
> set of constraints to optimize for. I would prefer a single
> source repository for plan9port under a reasonable DSCM
> so that I don't have to mix and match bits and pieces by
> hand.
What does prevent you from having lots of separate packages
in the same SCM ?
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-01 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-04 22:15 Roman Shaposhnik
2008-10-06 16:24 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-07 0:36 ` sqweek
2008-10-07 3:43 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-18 17:20 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-23 5:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-23 17:39 ` Russ Cox
2008-10-30 18:07 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-10-30 21:15 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-11-01 19:05 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2008-11-01 20:40 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-11-03 0:15 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-11-04 1:23 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-11-04 1:23 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
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