the state of the linuxppc-dev community

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:

> : On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tony Mantler wrote:
> :
> : > Mind you, the PPC-Linux rsync server makes it very easy to get the
> : > latest-ish kernel sources, which I used quite successfully recently to
> : > compile a kernel for my friend's PBG3. (well, mostly successful. got some
> : > missing symbols from some unimportant modules that I didn't care to track
> : > down. used the benh sources)
> :
> : Except that the server is never current, yes.  The _only_ place right now
> : with any sort of current sources is in bitkeeper trees.  So once bk is
> : released, things should look a bit better.
>
> In the it-doesn't-help-at-all department, the reason BK hasn't been publicly
> released is that we _know_ of bad rename problems.  We've been working with
> Cort to get those resolved and you'll all be happy to know that the BK
> resolve process (the thing that shleps in new work and figures out all the
> renames, conflicts, etc) has been rewritten and is passing all regressions.
> We're gonna spring it on you by the end of the week.  If Cort and the other
> BK users bless it, we'll do a public release.

ooh ooh ooh, you mean it might finally be out?  It has _not_ helped any
that the only up to date trees have been hidden from the public.
Duplication of work, general annoyance, etc.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/


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