Re: [Linux-7110-psion] Organization of the CVS tree

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> Hi,
> 	I can finally log to sourceforge and upload to the CVS
> tree. However, I do not know where to upload my stuff (and what is
> worth uploading), so I would like to discuss a little the organization
> of the CVS tree. I presented my (rough) proposition a few days ago so
> I am not going to repeat it here. I think that what we have there now
> is a good start but it is not enough because it does not enable the
> user to choose what the programs he wants. There are also no source
> codes, making the colaboration problematic. What do you think?

Yes, this is a good point, I have been playing around with cvs as you can see, 
I'm going to mirror Paul's site in the /Web directory, this should allow 
multiple changes under revision control.

You can browse the current state of the CVS at the following location.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=linux-7110

As previously stated I've also uploaded binaries in /Distribution/2.1 but this 
was me only playing.

I was hoping that we could upload binaries into the /Distribution/2.1 
directory that could become, in effect, a distribution that can be ftp'd onto 
the psion from the host. I know this is not ideal, but if we keep it simple 
for now it should work until we have a better system. We don't want to get too 
bogged down in making an installer at this time (unless anybody wants to).

A simple initrd with ppp and a command line ftp program with tar and gzip 
should facilitate a rudimentary installer (similar to the old slackware).

As for sources, I think that a similar approach to 

ftp://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/source/patches

where patches to known programs that can be compiled with the x-dev toolkit 
are placed (Ideally of course getting the patches incorperated into the 
mainstream release would be better). Most of the time it should just be 
tweaking configure scripts.

As for anything worth uploading, I think upload anything that needs testing, 
such as for instance your python binary and maybe the patches for the source 
(if any).

If a program is deemed to 'work' then we could announce it on the site so 
people can download it.

Any ideas would be good at this point.


Regards,

Nathan.
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