On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Peter Bex scripsit: > >> It's long been general wisdom that forking should be avoided at all >> costs, not because of technical reasons but because of social reasons. > > Well, not at *all* costs. Some forks are essential, like gcc/egcs and > XFree86/X.org. The list of stable forks is very small, maybe a dozen: > FreeBSD/NetBSD, NetBSD/OpenBSD, byacc/bison, Emacs/XEmacs are the ones > that come to mind right away.
"forks in the github sense are supposed to be short-lived. You hack on them until time comes to reintegrate the changes. At least, they are supposed to, anyway. -- Stephen _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
