PTXdist 1.99.17 Release ----------------------- The ptxdist team has released version 1.99.17 today, being part of the 1.99 beta series leading towards ptxdist-2.0.0.
The main news for this minor release is the switch from subversion to git. Svn had served us well for years now; however, times are changing, and especially two things lead us to this decision: - svn is becoming more and more difficult to use; starting with 1.5, the authentication methods had some serious drawbacks which havn't been fixed even in the recent 1.6 series. - We are heading towards more collaboration with people in the community; git allows a much faster patch work flow than svn. - git is fast, fast and fast. - We finally learned how to run git in a "centralized" way, which is mandatory for using it in a corporate environment (where you have to make sure that the universe continues rotating even if one person is hit by the bus). Starting with 1.99.17, svn is in read-only mode. If you had write access to the repository in the past, please provide your contributions in form of pull requests in the future. So test it, send bug reports and, of course, pull requests! About PTXdist ------------- PTXdist is a build system for embedded Linux systems. It's aim is to make building embedded systems based on the leading open source operating system a) easy for the developer and b) highly reproducable, in order to be able to fulfill the quality requirements of the industry. Being part of the Open Source Embedded Linux Automation Services from Pengutronix, ptxdist can be used to build highly customized root filesystems, GNU toolchains based on gcc and several other things which require an automated build system. The build system is released under the GNU General Public License, making it a first class choice for industrial projects with a long term strategy who don't want to tap into another vendor lock-in pit fall. Project Website: http://www.ptxdist.org Mailing list: [email protected] IRC: #ptxdist or irc.freenode.net -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
