> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks <dma...@netspace.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > No surprise there. :-) >> >> I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I >> got to thinking about whether it might not be a bad plan to use a cvs >> import of the 10.7 tree and then rename the directory, so that we can >> preserve the history. >> >> Thoughts? > > I do not support making a new distro subdir by simply cloning the old. > This is a great chance to prune out lots of old crap that doesn't > build, stop relying on system hacks like X11 symlink, stop carrying > forward -shlibs stub packages from old libversions, etc. However, > cloning the old into a holding-pen in git (preserving history) and then > using that for selective manual moving into the live distro still > within git gives us history linkage. New dist would essentially be a > fork or branch. > > dan > > -- > Daniel Macks > dma...@netspace.org > >
Sure, that makes sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
