[haiku-development] Re: Removing ported code from the repository, replacing with prebuilt packages (was: [haiku-commits] r35705)

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:50:56 +0100

On 2010-03-15 at 21:27:17 [+0100], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> So I take it you tend towards outsourcing mandatory stuff, right?
> >
> > Yup :-)
> >
> > Bye,
> >   Axel.
> >
> 
> In the past few days I have removed tar and vim from the Haiku source
> as they can now be added as optional packages.  Tar is now added in as
> a Mandatory package, along with sed.  We talked about replacing vim
> with nano, so I assume we should also now list nano as a Mandatory
> package?  As part of fixing ticket 3345 [0] I'm looking at removing
> ncurses as well, and setting it as a mandatory package as well.  Would
> this be the preferred solution?
> I'm also looking at ftp, I assume we're using tnftp [1]?

What I find important is that all these changes are really well tested. You 
need to be absolutely sure that the stuff that gets outsourced has the same 
quality and all the patches that may have been applied to the version in 
our repository.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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