Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264544AbTKNQst (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:48:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264546AbTKNQst (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:48:49 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:48034 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264544AbTKNQsq (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:48:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:48:44 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air Message-ID: <20031114164844.GB1618@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Davide Libenzi , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20031114150047.GC30711@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1509 Lines: 31 On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:35:33AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > One of us is not getting it, maybe it's me. To build something like > > you describe is pretty easy IF AND ONLY IF all you are asking for is an > > update mechanism. As soon as you want revision history, diffs, rollbacks, > > modifiable files, etc., you have to go to real BK. Is that OK? All you > > Spec for bk-lite: > > 1) Binary with "no worky on other SCM" kinda license > 2) update+history+diff (no rollbacks, no modifiable files, no etc...) > > In that way all current users of bk2cvs, bk2svn, bk2xxx can simply do a > pull from a bk repo and have they own scripts on their local machine to do > their bk2xxx. It will be a lower headache for you and for kernel.org > maintainers. Is it feasible ? update, yes. history, no, use bk/web. diffs, no, use bk/web or bk. building it is certainly possible and you could do it yourself. We already built the cvs exporter which is a lot nicer than what you are asking for and building another thing for another 6 users seems pointless. If you want to pay for the engineering then contact me offline. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/