On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM, TK Soh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Peer Sommerlund
> >> > <[email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> TK has the secret recipe for thg 0.5 (and 0.6, I assume)
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm working on something which tastes a little more of distutil /
> >> >> setuptools, which also replaces the MQ with a forest based system.
> >> >> See http://www.bitbucket.org/peso/thg-distutils-build/
> >> >> In case anybody feels like joining this they are more than welcome.
> >> >
> >> > I'm wondering if a hybrid approach would be a good idea.
> >> >
> >> > 1) clone mercurial-stable
> >> > 2) pull tortoisehg history and merge
> >> > 3) pull qct history and merge
> >> > 4) create small patch queue to fix up remaining bits
> >> >
> >> > This *uber* repository would be short-lived, only used for building
> the
> >> > installer.
> >> > Only the small patch queue is maintained from release-to-release. All
> >> > development
> >> > would still happen on the individual repositories.
> >>
> >> I've thought about the similar approach, but put it aside when peso
> >> announced his intention to work on yet another one. We may give it a
> >> try if it doesn't take too much work to create.
> >
> > I think it would be pretty straight-forward to setup a hybrid approach.
> We
> > would need
> > to move a few files around to avoid conflicts with hg when we merge.
> > setup.py for one,
> > and probably some READMEs.
> >
> > Then we would make the new simplified patch queue by copying over files
> from
> > the old
> > setup and making patches out of them.
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
I'll give this a try when I get an opportunity. Maybe this weekend.
--
Steve
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