[alsa-devel] HG vs GIT

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:19:49 +0100 (CET),
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:45:10 -0500,
> > Andrew Paprocki wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Feb 7, 2008 6:27 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > > > BTW, one big annoying thing is that developers have no complete kernel
> > > > tree to access, and thus the patches that touch outside the ALSA
> > > > subdirectory cannot be merged easily.  People often send patches
> > > > fixing together with OSS, etc, and I had to skip them.  So, frankly,
> > > > I'd love to have an access to the whole kernel tree.  But, OTOH, this
> > > > would make harder for other naive guys to give it a try because they
> > > > need to download the big linux kernel tree git.
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering about this the other day.. I don't think using
> > > kernel git trees would put anyone off. Anyone working on a sound card
> > > driver would most likely already be familiar with using git w/ the
> > > upstream kernel anyway.
> > 
> > Right, if you are a developer, it's fine (and even better).  But, my
> > concern is that the whole linux kernel tree might be too heavy for
> > some casual user who just wants to try the latest version of ALSA
> > driver...  "Download 50MB and use 350MB disk space just for a single
> > fix?  Hell, no!"
> 
> I have an idea to create a web interface generating the alsa-kernel like 
> tree on the fly (with some caching, of course). It might also apply for 
> all ALSA packages. It would be quite nice to point users to very recent 
> code and not to wait for daily tarballs.

This would be helpful indeed.


Takashi