On Dec 11, 3:22 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I've cloned the Android repository only a few weeks ago and I'm not > yet understanding many things. I've read in this m.l. "gingerbreas has > been not open yet" and does this means that it's not yet available in > the repo?
The way I understand it: Google has internal source code repositories for the releases they are working on. OHA members have access to that on a need-to-know-basis only. Some time after Google releases a new Android version, the public repository with the SDK is updated with the new version in one big release. Google tightly controls the code going back into the (private) Android version (all the reviewers work for Google). To developers writing Android software, this is not too different from Microsoft shipping the .NET source code with Visual Studio (I believe they still do). And yes, I know, that Android is a complete OS that you can build yourself, that's why I said "developers writing Android software". And of course, manufactures can fork Android and ship it (like the China version without Google stuff). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
