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Markus Törnqvist wrote: | On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:03:44PM -0500, David Masover wrote: | | But hopefully sys_reiser4 will be the standard, yes? | (Also, rename it to sys_reiser, the number makes it a bit more unclear, | more bound to the fs, not to the guy behind it)
How many versions of Reiser will there be? If you can get a separate system call for each one, go for it. Then you can always support sys_reiser4 on newer versions, and people use sys_reiser5 and so on to support newer features.
Unless, that is, you've already made it so modular that people who call sys_reiser on reiser4 won't find it broken on reiser5. If you can do that without cruft, you are amazing, and the number should go.
|>Being right isn't enough -- being right makes you Tesla, not Edison. | | I remember hearing this story in school, but it was four years ago :) | Was it something about Edison being the ultimate asshole who sabotaged | Tesla all the way for his own fame, and he won in the end?
Possibly. My point is Tesla was a genius who died poor and Edison was a hard worker who won. My guess is that Edison understood business and people a bit better than Tesla, who understood electricity a bit better than Edison.
| Also, I think Debian inclusion is a bad target, you have to hit upstream | first. Debian maintainers are probably more difficult people than | the upstream maintainers ;)
What about Gentoo? (I just mentioned this in an email, probably sent exactly the same time as yours.) Gentoo maintainers welcome new, unstable stuff, as long as it's well isolated -- use the ~x86 flag if it's a package, or a USE flag if it's a patch. So we just add a reiser4 USE flag. As long as they can warn users away from it because of possible instability (as they did with the gtk2 flag), we're fine.
What one distro does, others are more likely to do.
| Anyway, a patch repository is a good idea. Maybe one entirely open to | the public as well, to begin with. Anything that brings forth easy
Not really. Best thing? A Gentoo SYNC mirror or a Debian source, or the Fedora equivalent (if there is one). That is, the next best thing to a Gentoo USE flag. A lot of work for us, but users who want the latest reiser4 can get it, using a package manager, not patch and make.
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