On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:22:46PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 01:54:52PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > >We have an agreement in principle for DRI to use the XFree86 CVS tree > >instead of their separate tree on sourceforge, but that hasn't happened > >for reasons I don't understand. While that won't fix everything, it > > I think that's overstating it. Several people have agreed at > various times that it would be a good idea, but that isn't the same > as both groups agreeing to merge their development trees. > > The DRI project and its various sub-projects have different goals, > development cycles and models to XFree86, and I don't see any good > reasons to force either project into the other's model. The > branch-based development model is different, as is the CVS commit > access policy. It's largely because of a difference in development > cycles, for example, that the current XFree86 trunk hasn't been > merged in yet. The current DRI development is intended to be usable > with XFree86 4.2 rather than requiring the current XFree86 development > stuff. Things like this mean that what is now the DRI trunk would > be a branch within the XFree86 CVS anyway. From my experience with > many DRI<->XFree86 merges, the level of effort required isn't much > different than for branches within a single CVS. One reason for > this is that the XFree86 trunk is a (vendor) branch in the DRI CVS, > so with the exception of the import phase (which is a no-brainer), > it boils down to a branch merge either way. > > As for moving code in both directions, there are 3 people with > commit access in both places and who have experience with CVS merges > and the DRI code. The only reason why the DRI and XFree86 CVS > repositories are as diverged as at present is their different > positions within their development cycle. When the DRI developers > are ready to work with code closer to the XFree86 trunk than to > XFree86 4.2, that resync will happen. I don't think this is impeding > DRI development progress, but it if is, someone should let me know.
Agreed on all counts David. Alan. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
