Re: Call for volunteers: Backporting mySTEP changes

[Helge Hess]

On Mar 24, 2007, at 10:59, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> On the FOSDEM we agreed that it would be great to un-fork mySTEP.

Unless you are talking about a different discussion I think we  
actually agreed that its unlikely that this will be possible! :-)
[well, 'unfork' in the political sense, yes, unfork in terms of code  
merge, no]

The basic idea was to support forking, in the form of branches in the  
GNUstep Subversion repository. The goal was to easen sharing of *new*  
code in either of the branches. Eg if GNUstep adds NSAnimator, mySTEP  
can do a 'svn cp' and adopt, if mySTEP adds NSWebKitFrame, GNUstep  
can more easily add it.

What would be good for Svn revision history is this approach:
a) branch GNUstep (svn cp /trunk /branches/mystep/trunk)
b) change the FS layout so that it matches the mystep one
c) extract the mystep changes over it
d) commit
Svn will then keep the files connected even if they moved and both  
sides can track changes more easily.

Of course it would be good if mySTEP / GNUstep would agree on coding  
conventions so that a simple 'svn cp' might do in the future. Not  
sure whether thats possible.

Thanks,
  Helge
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