Helge Hess wrote: > On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:59, Fred Kiefer wrote: >> On the FOSDEM we agreed that it would be great to un-fork mySTEP. > > Unless you are talking about a different discussion I think we actually > agreed that its unlikely that this will be possible! :-) > [well, 'unfork' in the political sense, yes, unfork in terms of code > merge, no] > > The basic idea was to support forking, in the form of branches in the > GNUstep Subversion repository. The goal was to easen sharing of *new* > code in either of the branches. Eg if GNUstep adds NSAnimator, mySTEP > can do a 'svn cp' and adopt, if mySTEP adds NSWebKitFrame, GNUstep can > more easily add it. > > What would be good for Svn revision history is this approach: > a) branch GNUstep (svn cp /trunk /branches/mystep/trunk) > b) change the FS layout so that it matches the mystep one > c) extract the mystep changes over it > d) commit > Svn will then keep the files connected even if they moved and both sides > can track changes more easily. > > Of course it would be good if mySTEP / GNUstep would agree on coding > conventions so that a simple 'svn cp' might do in the future. Not sure > whether thats possible. >
Thank you for this statement Helge, it explains what I wanted to say. (Of course there still is my secrete agenda of swallowing up all other projects by GNUstep, but I didn't want to publish that already) We all hope to get to the described state as soon as the SVN access for Nikolaus is working. Cheers Fred _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
