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Re: [Om-synth] patch repository
From: |
Dave Robillard |
Subject: |
Re: [Om-synth] patch repository |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:00:36 +1000 |
On Wed, 2005-19-10 at 18:12 +0200, elgrande wrote:
> Atte André Jensen wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > A while back Dave expressed a wish for an online repository for
> > sharing om patches. Are there any news on this?
> >
>
> wouldn't it be easy like this:
>
> Add a cvs module (e.g. om_shared_patches) to the om repository.
>
> First let's assume some patches are already in there.
>
> Then it works like this:
> Have a cvs wrapper integrated in om_gtk which works like this:
> - Check out module shared_patches to a unique location (e.g.
> /usr/local/share/om_shared_patches)
> - Add the /usr/local/share/om_shared_patches (and subdirectories, if
> categorizing is done this way) to patch-loading-path.
> => The shared patches are available.
>
> But were are the patches from?
> For adding a patch, it could work like this:
> - Have a upload-patch functionalilty in om.
> - This lets you select a patch, copies it to your workarea
> (/usr/local/share/om_shared_patches) and does a cvs add & commit on the
> file. (Additional funtionality like adding it to a category aka subdir
> may be there)
This would require every user to have write access to CVS! Even if that
were possible, no way in hell is it going to happen :)
Many end-user types don't even have CVS installed anyway. Thanks for
the idea though. :)
-DR-