[PD-dev] SVN?

[Miller Puckette]

I think it doesn't matter whether I have to do a 'git pull' or a 'patch'
to apply patches.  The hard thing for me with patches is that I feel
I should understand the patch fully and believe it both works and that
it won't make future trouble.  For the last month or more I've been
working on HC's font patch, trying to adapt it so that it's bug-free
but still accomplishes HC's aim.

Another thing is that, git or svn or whatever, I don't like to make code
available to others until I believe it works.  I'd feel uncomfortable putting
every little 'commit' up for the whole Pd community to stumble over.
Roght now, for instance, my own copy of Pd is out of order until I can
find a path through the font mess.

I don't think the GPL/BSD thing applies much to patches; I always assume
that patches that show up on sourceforge fall under Pd's license unless
otherwise noted.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:18:21PM -0400, Chris McCormick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:27:15PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > It sounds to me like the best system is SVN as the core repository,  
> > then people can use git if they want, and sync it to SVN.  Miller  
> > currently does this with Git->CVS.
> 
> So wait, Miller is currently using Git? It seems to me that that is a
> major pro in favour of other developers using Git. The big issue with Pd
> development (apart from some slightly sharp personalities sometimes) is
> with:
> 
> a) Miller not accepting people's patches, often without giving a reason.
> b) People finding it difficult to merge Miller's monolithic changes
> (e.g. what Tim had to do with the devel branches).
> 
> Surely if more people were also using git it would make both of those
> issues moot since Miller could more easily pull the patches he wanted
> and people could more easily merge Miller's changes.
> 
> On the other hand it might change nothing and everyone will continue to
> refuse to merge good patches and fork eachothers code bases. Maybe it
> has more to do with license issues, such as most developers releasing
> source under the GPL whilst Miller releases under the BSD? I would love
> to hear some comments from Miller about this, especially if he's
> publishing his Git repository somewhere.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chris.
> 
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