On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:36:19 -0800, Jim Gifford <c...@jg555.com> wrote:
> We are not a fork, never have been. I think that's a matter of opinion, Jim. My opinion of CLFS is that it has always has been a fork of LFS' code (at least in its infancy), but not a fork of the project itself (the project being the conglomeration of LFS, BLFS, HLFS, ALFS). If it wasn't a fork of the code base, it would simply be a series of patches that could be applied on top of a given snapshot of the LFS book's XML + XSLT sources. Alternatively, it could have been developed in a separate SVN branch under the LFS repo and continuous integration of LFS changes could have kept the books in sync aside from the required toolchain changes. Instead, CLFS decided that the branch/patch approach wasn't suitable so created a fundamentally standalone project. As it stands, despite the seemingly obvious similarity in goals of LFS & CLFS now (our ability to target several architectures, the most technically correct way of doing so being to also introduce support for cross-building*), I don't think it's possible to actually integrate CLFS' techniques without manually reading, comparing and transferring content across (with correct attribution, of course). I obviously can't speak for the other editors, but for me, that is simply too much work to do. Instead of being given an svn diff type patch that helps me question and/or learn about the exact differences in approaches, I'd have to do a complete compare & contrast exercise across both book's sources. I am therefore indebted to people like Jeremy who have managed to do this, and despite initial bugs in the implementation, have got us at least some way toward achieving one of the major goals for LFS-7.0. Best wishes to all for the festive season. Regards, Matt. [*] Apologies for any inaccuracies in my simplification - I have only briefly followed toolchain discussions up until now, and may have mis-remembered what I read. My new year's resolution will be to sit down and learn about the technical side of the toolchain properly! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
