Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to the ArchWG]

[Kevin E Martin]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:08:00PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:54 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> > >>  - xc/lib/fontconfig
> > >>  - xc/lib/freetype2
> > 
> > Should these continue to be duplicated in our CVS or just come from their
> > upstream sources?  (For fontconfig I suppose it's mostly a matter of which
> > directory on fd.o Keith wants to keep it in.)
> 
> These depend on whether 7.0 will include the content of /extras or not;
> I'd rather not, but that would make 7.0 differ from 6.9.
> 
> Alternatively, we could include upstream tarballs on our server that
> matched the versions included with 6.9 and even provide support for
> building those as a part of the 7.0 system, but not include them in CVS
> or our source packages.

I would prefer the latter approach.  Also, if needed we can update the
monolithic tree to match what we include as a tarball for the modular
release.

Kevin