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  • From: Florian Franzmann <siflfran AT hawo.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel-xorg-modular merging
  • Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:13:16 +0200

On Mi 2014-08-27 08:29:53 +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:17:42 -0400
> schrieb Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>:
>
> > I tried to make a master bug http://sourcemage.org/issues/423 , but no one
> > else seemed to contribute to it.
>
> I didn't notice, but perhaps I was also not paying attention at the
> time. Oh, right at that time, I really was overbooked.
>
> > Unless you cast a bunch of X11 spells before switching to devel-xorg, you
> > wouldn't have run into the main problem. The major issue is that a bunch
> > of
> > spells link to libpthread-stubs
>
> Hm. I did cast xorg-spells. I had fluxbox with xterm running. Then I
> have seen that libxft doesn't build and remembered that it did on the
> devel branch.
>
> > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I think the only proper way to solve this is to have sorcery collect the
> > > link dependencies from the installed spells,
> > > [...]
> > > This would of course mean a big change in sorcery though and given the
> > > lack of time and motivation for any big sorcery work, I don't think
> > > this is
> > > going to happen anytime soon.
> >
> >
> > Honestly, I'd love to get around to implementing this, but I don't have
> > the
> > time currently.
>
> Well, that says it all. We only have choices of "bad" things, due to
> reality constraints. I then opt for the bad thing that makes it
> possible to have a current working system with quite some mess during
> upgrade instead of the thing that lets Source Mage die.
>
> So, what would be the dirty approach to get this done from your
> experience?
>
> Please, if someone strongly disagrees and thinks we need a highly
> sophisticated migration plan, please step forward and implement said
> plan:-/
It would be nice to have a Highly Sophisticated Migration Plan[tm] but
I don't think we have the manpower for that.

I think the quick and dirty approach would be something along these
lines: merge devel-icu into devel-xorg, then merge devel-xorg into
master.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas



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