On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Denys! > >> Please fetch current git: >> That's how everyone else does development in open source world: >> they send patches, and they base them on current development branch, >> not on some released tarball. > > Sorry ... > > 1) I don't use git! ... I do not have any machine with an installed git > and I do not like to install git. I worked and work with 5 other version > control systems (commercial products, not open source one). I do just > not want to have and to learn another one ... that's my decision, at > least currently ... if you say using git is absolutely required to > contribute to busybox development, than I have to stop contribution > completely ... no way out :-(
Using one command to check out the tree hardly counts as a lot of learning. > ... normally I do just wait and grab the newest nightly snapshot ... but ... > > 2) Currently I'm not working on my or any full development system. My > development machine has a bug anywhere in the libraries due to an > incomplete and broken gentoo update ... needs complete reinstall, but > missing time for this at the moment. Additionally the machine I'm > working on is stuck to a release tar ball (currently 1.17.2), I can't > install daily snapshots, Why do you need to *install* the snapshot? You can only download it, make a copy, edit the copy, test-build the copy, diff the original and copy, and mail the diff. Which means you need the following minimum: wget, cp, text editor, compiler, diff, and mail program. > because there are about 40 special > modifications, which have to be reinstalled into busybox each time a new > version is installed ... which means manual action most time, because of > heavily changing things in busybox ... and again I do not have the time > to do that. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
