On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:20:13PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote: > I think this is pretty common with many open source tools. Every distribution > maintainer wants to make a tweak - and not always sends it upstream. When > they do send it upstream - the patch can be rejected by the mainline > maintainer - due to a variety of reasons...
Yes, but in each case there is still a version it is based on, plus some identifiable patches. > For example - there is a huge difference between a RedHat kernel, and > kernel.org. Most Debian userspace packages are heavily patched - yeah, it > kind of stinks - but that is what "diff" is for.... No, that's what the seperately provided patches are for. > It is not a mess - it is just the way it is... elf2flt is actually rather unique that way. It isn't a specific known version, with local patches. There is no released version at all. There are no patches. Just dozens of unique variations. > elf2flt is maintained by David McCullough - mainline is at: > > http://cvs.uclinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/elf2flt/ > > Releases are done as part of the uClinux-dist OK, news to me. Nothing ever seems to mention that. What are the chances this bugfix from the blackfin edition has been submitted to uclinux's tree then? > I think the big difference is that binutils, gcc, linux kernel, uClibc, > busybox, etc are all huge projects with _many_ maintainers for each project. And releases that you can actually refer to. > elf2flt is a small (but critical) project - where all the burden falls on one > person (who is also busy with other open source responsibilities - as well a > real life). It would probably actually be less work if it was possible to talk about specific releases of it, and hence fix bugs. Releasing it as part of a large collection of other things is note a release. uclinux-dist is a collection of things that should work together. Each of the pieces has seperate releases, except elf2flt for some reason. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list uClibc@uclibc.org http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc