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From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org>
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Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r189537 - projects/jbuild/usr.sbin/config
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:33:31PM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>     
>>> maybe a naive question, but isn't there a way to construct
>>> these Buildfile's (and Buildfile.dirdep, assuming they are
>>> not there by mistake) automatically from the existing Makefiles ?
>>>       
>> In the simple cases, the Makefile to Buildfile conversion is
>> straight forward. However there are enough "special" cases where
>> the files have to be cleaned up.
>>
>>     
>>> It's going to be a nightmare to support both Makefile
>>> and Buildfile.
>>>       
>> I'm not sure this is true. The Buildfiles aren't intended to be
>> merged back to head -- they will stay in the project branch.
>>     
>
> ok, i thought this was not just a private project but something
> that might end up in the main tree ? Sorry if i misunderstood.
>
>   

My understanding is that work under projects/ is meant to be merged to 
HEAD while stuff under users/ is not.  At least that was the distinction 
given to me when I waffled about where to put my work.

    Sam