I like the Debian approach where they maintain a patchset against a pristine upstream tarball.
I'd particularly like to see the bigcouch variant of couchdb expressed that way, it would allow new developers to see where bigcouch diverges and it would allow couchdb developers to easily incorporate generally useful patches. B. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 22:15, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> If we have a checksum, what's the point? >> >> Why not just include the original source the checksum is taken from? > > The point is keeping very exact track of what the source is. And the > point is making it easy for distributors to build without the bundled > dependencies. It would be great to also ship an artefact without the > bundled deps, but that might be a tad too much work... > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan >
