Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:37:22 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r189537 - projects/jbuild/usr.sbin/config Message-ID: <49B545C2.7030500@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090309150746.GB36472@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <200903081629.n28GTxBH087773@svn.freebsd.org> <20090308164708.GA97383@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090309143331.GA57289@what-creek.com> <20090309150746.GB36472@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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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
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