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On Monday, May 09, 2011 07:00:09 PM Matt Turner wrote: |
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> 2011/5/9 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>: |
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> > maybe your answer is in the readme :) |
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> > http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/patches/000_README |
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> > some of them are needed, some of them are useful, some we could certainly |
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> > drop. If the most important patches could go upstream then, again, I'm |
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> > all for going to fdo, but I'm not that enthusiastic about it (e.g. fdo |
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> > git still installs the test programs, they make """releases""" that |
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> > don't even build, etc...). |
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> > If it's for maintaining my own patchset with the sds patches then I |
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> > prefer using sds directly :) We could start excluding some sds patches |
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> > to stop applying them, bringing us closer to fdo though, it's just I |
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> > don't see the need. Feel free to propose me somes to drop with |
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> > justifications ;) |
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> The most obvious thing about the SDS version is that the last release |
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> was 24-Feb-2011. There looks to be a number of fixes in the FDO |
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> version that, given the last release was in February of SDS libva, |
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> haven't made it to the SDS version. |
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> We can certainly fix the FDO version to our liking and push things |
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> back upstream, and since FDO actually is upstream, this seems to make |
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> sense. |
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> So, it only seems reasonable to (1) move to the FDO version, (2) fix |
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> and commit fixes for stupid things like installing test programs. |
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switch 2 and 1 and we get a deal ;) |
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> We're not doing much to maintain the software if we just rely on some |
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> guy to patch it for us, I think. |
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I don't see anything wrong with this. Once again, if you want things to move, |
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please start looking carefuly at sds patches, pushing what's needed to fdo and |
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proposing me to drop what's not. If you're suggesting I do it, then it's not |
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_that_ urgent for me since sds works quite well and users seem happy with it. |
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A. |