Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-mobile (8 mails)

[Christopher Stender <cstender@xxxxxxx>]

Am Monday 22 June 2009 12:28:15 schrieb Michal Hrusecky:
> Christopher Stender - 17:01 19.06.09 wrote:
> > We should definitely use another repository because
> > network:synchronization is IMHO for stuff like rsync or csync and has
> > nothing todo with Mobile/PIM synchronization. What about
> > "Synchronization" as a new toplevel project?
>
> Well, things like rsync already has subproject
> network:synchronization:files and they are using it for some time
> already I guess, so moving them somewhere else is out of
> question. We can create another synchronization repository, but toplevel
> synchronization directory will be confusing for users searching for
> rsync and such. I agree, that network:synchronization isn't the best
> name for this kind of project, although for example opensync can be used
> to synchronize network stuff as well (Gmail, LDAP, ...) and pilot-link
> can be used to synchronize your PDA over network too... I would vote for
> mobile:synchronization too as suggested as it possibly can contain in
> future other mobile stuff as well - for example ringtone editors, mobile
> java, maybe even openSUSE Mobile Edition (I guess it would be nice
> top-level repository for things like Maemo or Moblin, but they already
> has their own top-level repositories)
>
> darix: Do you think that mobile:synchronization would be too much
> polluting the namespace?

We can drop the OpenSync toplevel project as soon as we have 
mobile:synchronization. So we don't increase the number of toplevel projects.

> > Furthermore, I would like to keep subprojects like:
> >
> > Synchronization:OpenSync:Factory (devel project for factory)
> > Synchronization:OpenSync:SVN (svn snapshots)
> >
> > and maybe for released versions which are still maintained:
> >
> > Synchronization:OpenSync:$VERSION
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I agree that several versions of the same package can be certainly
> useful for users. But I would suggest to keep all our packages in same
> project to make it easier for users. OpenSync is again great example. If
> we split packages under subrepositories then with new PDA I as a user
> would need to add SMT:OpenSync repository and
> ROOT:Palm/ROOT:WinCE/ROOT:Whatever repository. I would suggest to have
> something like ROOT:STABLE for package from last released openSUSE (well
> tested package available even for older distributions if possible),
> ROOT:FACTORY for factory devel version and ROOT:UNSTABLE for SVN builds,
> alpha version testing and such. But this can be probably achieved by
> linking/agregating from other subproject if you need/want them anyway.

Okay, I can live with that.

Best regards,
Christopher
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