[openbeos] Re: SVN in Haiku

On 2007-09-21 at 23:45:49 [+0200], Raymond C. Rodgers <obos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> >
> > I don't think we will put it in our repository. There's no reason to do 
> > that;
> > it would just add the additional work of keeping it in sync.
> >   
> Ah, ok. There was talk on this list about including it in the repository
> as recently as April 2007, so I thought it was something that was
> already decided on. Not to start an argument for including it, but (you
> saw it coming! :-) ) it doesn't necessarily have to be updated on a
> regular basis, and it provides a common library for multiple developers'
> use instead of making the developers track down a copy to include with
> their apps or passing that task on to their users. Most Linux distros
> and OpenBSD (sister project of OpenSSL) do pretty much the same thing;
> in fact, my installation of OpenBSD 4.1 has OpenSSL 0.9.7j instead of
> 0.9.8e which came out a few months earlier...

I'm all for a common place where ported applications or libraries are 
available in source and compiled form -- a revived GeekGadgets, if you 
want. I just don't think the Haiku repository should be that place. 
Something like http://tools.assembla.com/BePorts/ looks promising to me, 
though.

CU, Ingo

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