[haiku-development] Re: Vendor branches
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:56:42 +0100 CET
"Ithamar R. Adema" <ithamar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Supposedly because the ones importing those drivers didn't think of
> > it or
> > were just too lazy. Or maybe they had other reasons. Generally I'd
> > say it's
> > a good idea to use vendor branches, at least as long as the
> > imported
> > software is still maintained. It's also possible to create the
> > vendor
> > branch later by just copying the revision of the initial import, at
> > least
> > if that were the original sources.
> Ah, that's what I thought (me being one of the offenders ;)). If
> people
> agree, I might spend some time next week setting up a vendor branch
> for
> the BSD drivers that we use. I think it would be very useful to have
> the
> BSD code in one place, making updating them a lot easier....
Definitely agreed, though it's already in place; it might just not be
up to date (IIRC at least I maintained it, and I think korli as well).
See:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/vendor/freebsd
Bye,
Axel.
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