[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.

Yes, some are already at beclan though there was an svn tree for diffs, 
but it's not really maintained these days.

François.

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