From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12514BC6D for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:14 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAEERoEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACQJwEBAQgKKZ8z X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,277,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="21979262" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 15:00:14 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m0UE0CgH031194 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:13 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAALERoEdQW+UCh2dsb2JhbACQJwEBAQgKKZ83 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,277,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="8538105" Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) ([80.91.229.2]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2008 15:00:12 +0100 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKDTv-00024S-1D for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:00:03 +0000 Received: from ks300734.kimsufi.com ([91.121.65.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:00:03 +0000 Received: from sylvain by ks300734.kimsufi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:00:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <479F0664.2070706@exalead.com> <47A045C1.7030603@exalead.com> <1201689988-sup-2321@ausone.inria.fr> <1CFEA6EA-DC85-4BAD-AF50-5356A193127D@erratique.ch> <1201693990-sup-7664@ausone.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ks300734.kimsufi.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl2 (Debian) Sender: news X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47A082EC.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 bug:01 end-up:01 ocaml:01 50,:98 wrote:01 diff:02 modules:02 module:03 patches:03 patches:03 debian:04 debian:04 daniel:04 upstream:04 On 30-01-2008, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > > --===============1976516885== > Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > boundary="=-1201694054-349540-27517-1921-14-="; micalg="pgp-sha1" > > > --=-1201694054-349540-27517-1921-14-= > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Excerpts from daniel.buenzli's message of Wed Jan 30 12:15:03 +0100 2008: >> >> Le 30 janv. 08 à 11:50, Nicolas Pouillard a écrit : >> >> > And what if the author of P_{i1} have changed it's project >> > (locally or not), >> > let's say some file renamings, adding some code around the >> > bug, do some >> > global replacing... >> > >> > With such a diff file you end-up with a patch that is not applicable. >> > >> > That's not a problem when using darcs! >> >> The port system should focus on making it easy to use and share ocaml >> modules, not helping to develop them. If you want to help in the >> development of a module interact directly with the project's vcs. > > Of course you want to contribute to upstream. But I don't want to wait them, > so we need to modify them in a coherent way. > Upstream should be the synchronization point. Because, if you make it move (by sending him patches), the benefit of your patches will also go into other distribution (GODI/Fedora/Debian). Debian try to push patches to upstream because it makes other get the benefit from it... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall