[arch-haskell] Status of OpenGL in Arch Haskell?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:11 PM,  <gdweber at iue.edu> wrote:
> "hoko" requested adding the OpenGL package and others
> in issue #73 on archhaskell/habs.
>
> I made a pull request (issue #82) two weeks ago which would
> add OpenGL and related packages.
>
> I'm puzzled by the lack of response (no comments or other action).
> Does it mean:
> -   The addition of OpenGL is unwelcome?
> -   My commits need improvement before they can be pulled?
>     Please tell me how.*
> -   The habs maintainers are very busy?  If this is the case,
>     I'm sorry to be a pest.  I'm a little nervous about its being
>     "closed due to age" like #52.
>
> *From somewhere I have the impression that I should
> "rebase" my branch onto master, maybe something like this:
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git pull upstream       # upstream is archhaskell/habs
> $ git push myfork master  # myfork is gdweber/habs
>
> $ git checkout opengl     # opengl is my topic branch
> $ git rebase master
> $ git push myfork opengl
>
> But there is a very stern warning,
> "Do not rebase commits that you have pushed to a public repository"
> from the Pro Git book,
>
>     http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing
>
> so I'm hesitant to do that without explicit instructions.
> I'm very inexperienced with git.

It's mostly due to inactivity by me.

If you were to do the following:

1. rebase on archhaskell/master
2. build for both i686 and x86_64
3. upload the built packages to a place where I can get them

all before I make the next set of updates (will most likely not happen
until the weekend), then you have minimised my work and maximised your
chances of getting your work pulled.

## On working with git
My policy on rebasing in git: never rebase any published branch that
others are supposed to base their work on.  That means I never rebase
`master` or any hotfix branch.  My development branches on the other
hand I rebase as I like, and sometimes I publish them in order to
easily work on them from different computers.

## On working with git in archhaskell
The `cblrepo.db` file isn't very well suited for version control as it
is managed by `cblrepo` at the moment.  I think that a simple
alphabetic sort on the file would improve the situation, but I haven't
added that to the tool yet.  In practice this means that at the moment
pull requests are of limited value since rebasing a changeset that
touches `cblrepo.db` is more work than using `cblrepo` to add the
packages 'manually'.  Also, modifying the git repo is the minor part
of adding or updating a package.  What takes time is building the
affected packages for both supported platforms.

/M

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