[gst-devel] GStreamer switching to git

Julien Moutte julien at moutte.net
Wed Jul 16 11:29:45 CEST 2008


So in the light of what Zaheer said and the fact that bazaar could
completely work with a git repository I think we are all okay with the
move to GIT.

Great news !

Julien Moutte


Ole André Vadla Ravnås wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Ole André Vadla Ravnås
> <oleavr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:54:32 +0300
>>> "Ole André Vadla Ravnås" <oleavr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm aware that things are in heavy development, and that's really
>>>> promising. However, for those of us stuck doing GStreamer development
>>>> on this broken platform it's less of an option to put our current
>>>> efforts on hold, or reduce our productivity by having to fix bugs in
>>>> tools that aren't quite there yet. There's certainly enough
>>>> interesting problems to solve with the code itself on this platform,
>>>> and personally I'm already bogged down with maintenance of another
>>>> build system (because autotools isn't usable for day-to-day
>>>> development on Windows), and introducing even more tools that aren't
>>>> there yet on the portability-side will just make things even less
>>>> productive.
>>> Git is a healthy project with lots of active development so things are
>>> improving all the time.  But that's not to say that the current version
>>> of Git on Windows is unacceptable.  Do you have any specific complaints
>>> against the current implementation?
>> Sorry for the late reply on this one, I was abroad without access to
>> any Windows system so I had to wait until I came home in order to
>> re-evaluate.
>>
>> After giving it a fresh spin I am now happy to announce that my
>> show-stopper complaints have all been addressed and are now obsolete!
> 
> Bad wording here; by 'show-stopper' I meant something that I
> considered a show-stopper for myself giving the switching decision a
> loud +1. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ole André
> 
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