On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:36:04AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:41:19AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de [070703 01:32]:
I don't have a strong opinion either way (as long as we don't have _forks_ of code for v1 and v2, which is why we now use svn:externals).
I like the way doing the forks as they really allow us to progress with new code while leaving old code intact.
It may make sense for LinuxBIOS to "fork" as in "we don't modify v2 but start fresh with v3" from time to time when really big changes are needed.
It does not make sense for common, independant utilities such as flashrom. Flashrom works with v1, v2, and v3. Why should we fork it for every version?
Plus, flashrom has its uses outside linuxbios too. It's quite a few orders of magnitude harder to provide linuxbios support than it is to provide flashrom support for any board out there.
Luc Verhaegen.