Live builds (was: Merged proto package)

[Dave Airlie]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:57:47 +0200, <olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't see why other distributions can't provide something similar.
>> Even without true live bulids, IMHO this makes the whole point about
>> xserver being too hard to build pretty moot.
>
> Not really; except for Gentoo, all these kinds of builds ever see are
> somewhere along 'master', so you can't go get bits from some other tree
> and build those. We're stuck in a linear world right now, and I'd like
> to make more parallel development possible.

The also suffer from the somewhere along master 2 weeks ago problem,
where someone reports a bug, its fixed upstream and the ppa lags by an
amount of time. So you patch master, and then the user has to wait until
the ppa updates to tell you if it fixed it. Its a really annoying workflow.

Dave.