Basant Kukreja wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:27:23AM -0700, Shanti Subramanyam - PAE wrote: > (snip...) >> The above doesn't allow for simply browsing the sources (which I often >> do). Of course, I can always untar each directory - it just seems a >> little wierd. >> > That is not much of issue. A simple "untar" target of Makefile can do that e.g > when you want to browse sources then > $ gmake untar > The above will make raw sources available. >
I could see this making sense in a tarball distribution, but not in an SCM. The reason is some people (including me) like to use IDEs that know how to look at different branches of an SCM, and can then easily pick two files and diff them. If the expectation is that I'd have to check out everything, then open some tarballs just to diff two files, that won't be very useful. Besides which, if we get OpenGrok operating on our SVN, it won't be able to peer into those tarballs either. Having something like what's available here would be pretty powerful: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libcmd/Makefile?r2=2522&r1=0 I think it would be good for the upstream communities to be able to see the source as it had started there, and Sun's modifications (if any) easily through a web based tool. Does this make sense? - Matt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Global Systems Practice http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/webstack-discuss/attachments/20070627/88be5cf4/attachment.html>
