Re: [Ganglia-developers] 3.7.x release status

[Daniel P. <da...@po...>]

On 03/02/15 22:59, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> I'm one of the CK developers interested. It's been a PITA to find time
> to get a DD to sign a key in person. Samy has just started a new company
> and I'm pretty sure that's kept him busy enough that he's had trouble
> finding the time too. The problem with getting onto the build machines
> was getting the key signed. That's an orthogonal problem, we can take
> that up off-list.

Sooner or later we'll get that sorted out - there are Debian Developers
just about everywhere these days.


> I've got a patch using APR rwlocks. Working with Vlad to get it tested
> in our environment. The future changes requiring CK would be much more
> invasive than just the change to remove it, so from a release
> engineering perspective, I don't see any reason to start from here as a
> branch point. I can fish out the commit with all the configure stuff
> when that actually happens.
> 

If you think it is feasible, you could also have both, using
pre-processor conditional logic and an option to the configure script.
Distributions would build it the normal way and there would be no need
for branching in the repository.