* Al <oss.el...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hope you have the power to go that way far enough on your own until it > becomes interesting for more people.
Well, let's see where it goes. I'll continue my work and it seems that soon a few others might jump in. > I did good progress with Gentoo on Cygwin this WE. 3 big packages are > directly before me now: Python, Portage and GCC. That'll be the most troublesome ones of all ;-) > > Hey, wait a minute ... we were talking about OSS-QM, thats completely > > different project. Briegel is a build system (somewhat similar to > > portage, but yet quite different concepts behind), which just happens > > to work smoothly w/ oss-qm. > > A build system needs sources and patches to build. So I think they are > related. I've designed the two projects so that they're independent from each other, but just play very well with together. OSS-QM repositories [1] are layed out in a way that it's trivial to fetch specific version of the packages, and also allows separate namespaces (prefixes) for individual distros (so they can push their work directly to oss-qm w/o stepping onto other's feet). > If your patch import system works, it can become very interesting. Well, for Debian it already works quite well, Gentoo still is unsolved, as I'm lacking information to construct the history. (a little help from Gentoo devs would really be appreciated). > You can run something similar to Gentoo without the need > of a big community at the beginning. So you have all freedom to > customize it just the way you want it. Actually, I already *do* have something similar - by combination of OSS-QM and Briegel. But yet only a few packages for certian embedded targets. cu [1] http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
