On Aug 27, 2009, at 0:38, James Howison wrote: > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 4:45 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On Aug 26, 2009, at 19:57, Sven-S. Porst wrote: >> >>> As we discussed Sparkle recently and I’m not sure you noticed, I >>> just >>> want to point out that the project seems to have moved to github >>> now. >>> >>> http://github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle/ >>> >>> While I have no idea whether the activity will persist this time >>> and I >>> am neither familiar with the improvements made for BibDesk, I want >>> to >>> point this out because it may be an opportunity to get these >>> improvements in the main code or at least noticed. >>> >>> As Sparkle is extremely widespread (and rightly so, from a user’s >>> point of view) these days and seems to have plenty of bugs / >>> problems >>> which people run into, any contribution may be helpful. >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Sven >> >> Yes, I noticed and already had a working copy of that. However the >> situation is rather reversed: the Sparkle code at github is till >> lacking some of the most important bug fixes that are already in our >> version. > > FWIW the github way of handling that would be to fork the Sparkle > project there, creating a fork in the name of bibdesk (or your github > user), add your changes to your fork, and send the Sparkle project a > pull request. That way you can track your local changes in your own > tree, but from time to time either have them pull changes from yours > or you pull changes from theirs. The github (well git actually, but > github makes it easy) system tracks the relationship between the two > trees. It's really ideal for the situation you are facing, although > there is a decent learning curve. > > --J
And it requires BD to move to GIT. I'm not willing to spend any time on this, it's not worth it. Moreover, I don't think this is a very responsible way to work as long as Sparkle doesn't really have a release tree separate from the development tree, because things would become too detached and hard to follow. BTW, I saw that Andy just included my fixes this morning. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
