[Xmonad] darcs patch: move Spiral to LayoutHelpers. (and 4 more)

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Thu Jun 28 08:36:47 EDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:48:58PM +1000, Dave Harrison wrote:
> Key, or core devs publish their own outgoing trees alongside your own
> at some location (an example of what I mean is evident here :
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/DeveloperRepos
> 
> This means that people like David (Roundy, not me ;-) ) can publish
> their own tree containing the stuff they are responsible for, and also
> directly manage the patches for their own code.  Then the release team
> (yourself and Spencer ?) can pull from their published repo whenever
> you want to, merge it all together into a single release repo, and cut
> a tag for it.
> 
> Not sure if this works with darcs since I've never used it
> (personally, I'm a git ;-) ).  But it would solve the problem of
> people being able to publicly maintain their own code, without you
> having to worry about the current patch management problem you have -
> you just have to trust the maintainers.

That'd work fine with darcs, but seems like overkill for this stuff.  Most
of the time what I have doesn't differ from main xmonad (except in private
changes).
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net


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