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From: | MJ Ray |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] towards standards specifications |
Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:02:25 +0100 |
On 2003-08-27 17:57:48 +0100 Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
[...] I've tried to give a high-level overview of the design space questions and sketch in some history about previous attempts to standardize.
Thanks a lot for this. It certainly helped me, as I didn't have time to follow the arch list through all of that time, or the changeset list at all. FWIW, I think agree with your partition of the problems.
I'm not happy with the current tla implementation of inventory, but that's probably because I don't understand it enough. Is it documented?
Unexplored: I haven't reached out much to the meta-cvs project.I _think_ I recall that it _does_ have a concept of logical file identifier, so that might be interesting to look into.
Yes, it does, although I can't remember much about how it is implemented either. I think it tries to hide this identifier from users.
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It _might_ be intersting to factor out `inventory', `mkpatch', and `dopatch' into a separate distribution.
How easy is it to turn a random changeset into an arch commit? I'm sure it should be easy, yet I lack the required magic words.
Most of your message makes it look like a refactoring of any arch implementation notes along these lines would be a good idea.
-- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.
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