RE: [Dri-devel] Radeon 7500 lockup

[Alexander S. <Ale...@at...>]

> Seriously, the DRI stuff does live in seperate directories,=20
> with the sole=20
> exception of the 2D driver, many of which have different=20
> maintainers in=20
> the XFree86 project scope. So there is a strong physical=20
> seperation of the=20
> DRI code in the XFree86 tree. So, more than the time that=20
> takes to merge=20
> trees, it would be the sinergy of both projects. (My=20
> primarily concern is=20
> that the lack of manpower and tight policies of the XFree86=20
> project would=20
> drag us down instead of boosting).
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> Jos=E9 Fonseca

A merge would pull the plug from that constantly growing
fork problem. Having two CVS repository is much different
from having one repository with a mainline tree and a
crowd of patches against it. A branch and much more a
separate CVS does have the habit to develop much on his
own unless you go the two-side pain (plus the one that
does have the task of merging) of permanently syncing=20
them.

Regards Alex.

PS: Why not merge all that stuff in BitKeeper or alikes?
I dont want to say CVS is outdated, but maybe it can have
some advantages if such a merge happens on a new platform.

PS2: sorry if my comments are outdated to that respect...