Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-23 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 22 November 2010 23:37, Wolf Tivy wti...@my.bcit.ca wrote: I think we should stop creating unwanted complexity. As for all suckless software our goal is to create software that works for everyone without having tons of configure options and features to choose from. For those exceptional

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-23 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 23 Nov 2010, at 9:52 am, Anselm R Garbe wrote: On 22 November 2010 23:37, Wolf Tivy wti...@my.bcit.ca wrote: I think we should stop creating unwanted complexity. As for all suckless software our goal is to create software that works for everyone without having tons of configure options and

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-22 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 21 November 2010 21:42, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:56:07 + Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: On 21 November 2010 19:33,  sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Another kinda heretic idea might be to have fairly feature-rich branches and

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-22 Thread Julien Jehannet
2010/11/22 Anselm R Garbe garb...@gmail.com: I don't mind if you set up a git repo where each patch from the website resides in a separate branch, but I think you just organise the existing approach just differently. You don't fix the problem, which is having a suitable process to determine

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-22 Thread Wolf Tivy
I think we should stop creating unwanted complexity. As for all suckless software our goal is to create software that works for everyone without having tons of configure options and features to choose from. For those exceptional cases where people use something like dmenu in a modified way

[dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but at least it's an interesting experiment. For the following reasons... - It's easier to maintain and update separate versions/features using vcs branches rather then separate patch files. (unless all the patches posted are generated by vcs

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 21 November 2010 12:49, Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be wrote: It's easier to maintain and update separate versions/features using vcs branches rather then separate patch files. (unless all the patches posted are generated by vcs systems, but in that case we should at least

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread stanio
* Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be [2010-11-21 13:50]: For the following reasons... - It's easier to maintain and update separate versions/features using vcs branches rather then separate patch files. (unless all the patches posted are generated by vcs systems, but in that case we

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:30:55 +0100 v4hn m...@v4hn.de wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:14:26PM +0100, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Often, issues arise when applying multiple patches. The prposal doesn't solve this, does it? For single features -- sure, it's beneficial, but the work to

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread stanio
* Dieter Plaetinck die...@plaetinck.be [2010-11-21 17:12]: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:30:55 +0100 v4hn m...@v4hn.de wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 04:14:26PM +0100, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Set of branches based on multiple patches, representing different dmenu flavours -- like

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 21 November 2010 19:33, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Another kinda heretic idea might be to have fairly feature-rich branches and feature-removing patches. Just thinking loud Trunk, a branch per patch, a spicy branch, and a plain branch? (Names pending.) Trunk would be mainline dmenu,

Re: [dev] git dmenu mirror with feature branches instead of separate patches

2010-11-21 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:56:07 + Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote: On 21 November 2010 19:33, sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: Another kinda heretic idea might be to have fairly feature-rich branches and feature-removing patches. Just thinking loud Trunk, a branch per patch, a