On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:57 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 1:32 AM Adam Samalik <asama...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> >> I thought that Arbitrary Branching (now referred to as Stream Branching) >> was initially developed for Modularity only. >> >> Were there any plans to use it for standalone packages as well? >> > > Thank you for bringing this up... I re-read the Wiki including the > Factory2 link and I'm still confused. I like the idea at a high level but I > still don't understand how to use it. > > One example is that I maintain the package OpenImageIO which has a very > disciplined upstream that's careful about not making API/ABI breaking > changes within a minor release. I would like to get branches for each minor > release that's currently supported, 1.8 for rawhide through F28, 1.8 for > F27 and 1.5 for EPEL. > > Like I said, at a high level it makes since, but I still don't understand > exactly how to do it or if the process/tools are mature enough to actually > use yet. > The original idea was to use it for modules [1]. You would reference the branches in your module definition [2]. [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/making-modules/adding-new-modules/ [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/modularity/making-modules/defining-modules/ > Thanks, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Adam Šamalík --------------------------- Software Engineer Red Hat
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