Re: [sabayon] Moving Pessulus

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On 7/9/07, Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 20:14 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Most of you must have seen my post on p.g.o, asking for possible
> > methods on how to do subversion to subversion migration.
> > There have been quite a few responses
> > (http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2007/07/06/subversion-question/#commentlist),
> > with svn2svn (http://blog.yanime.org/articles/2006/05/15/svn2svn)
> > looking pretty interesting .
> > However, the major issues with svn2svn are
> > more larger modules.
>
> Could you not use an external module? And then have that included into
> the sabayon tree. I'm not 100% sure about the motivation behind moving
> Pessulus into the Sabayon tree. I have heard of people using Pessulus
> without Sabayon to lockdown down a single machine for a single user.

Agreed. I'm thinking of a separate executable to Pessulus as well
(which is provided by the Sabayon package)

> An
> svn external hook would still allow this to be possible without the
> hassle of having to "make update" ([1]). There urgently needs to be some
> integration since Pessulus and Sabayon had a different UI in the last
> major GNOME release.
>
> I'm not discounting the merge, and if Vincent is happy to go ahead then
> I think that that will be to the benefit of the majority of users (via
> Sabayon.)

I think Vincent was not opposed to the idea of merge. See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sabayon-list/2007-January/msg00029.html

This is also mentioned in the Pessulus roadmap at
http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Pessulus

<quote>
What are your plans for GNOME 2.20 (next 4 months, before feature and
UI freezes)?

   * pessulus code will likely be integrated in sabayon
</quote>

Cheers,
Sayamindu


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