Re: [Gnu-arch-users] towards standards specifications

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-08-27 17:57:48 +0100 Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:

> [...] I've tried to give a high-level
> overview of the design space questions and sketch in some history
> about previous attempts to standardize.

Thanks a lot for this.  It certainly helped me, as I didn't have time 
to follow the arch list through all of that time, or the changeset 
list at all.  FWIW, I think agree with your partition of the problems.

I'm not happy with the current tla implementation of inventory, but 
that's probably because I don't understand it enough.  Is it 
documented?

>     Unexplored:  I haven't reached out much to the meta-cvs project.
>     I _think_ I recall that it _does_ have a concept of logical    
> file 
> identifier, so that might be interesting to look into.

Yes, it does, although I can't remember much about how it is 
implemented either.  I think it tries to hide this identifier from 
users.

[...]
>     It _might_ be intersting to factor out `inventory', `mkpatch',
>     and `dopatch' into a separate distribution.

How easy is it to turn a random changeset into an arch commit?  I'm 
sure it should be easy, yet I lack the required magic words.

Most of your message makes it look like a refactoring of any arch 
implementation notes along these lines would be a good idea.

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MJR/slef   My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.