[Xastir] A bit of intro to CVS

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Scott Evans wrote:

> I'm fully aware of CVS and the others mentioned. Would it be outside the
> scope to include say an RPM.spec (fedora/suse) file and the Debian
> directory into the CVS source tree ? or maybe create a second CVS source
> to contain such ?

I don't know anything about Debian directories, but just a general
perspective note:

If we get involved in making specific changes to try to track with
the latest version of specific operating systems, we'll not do a
good job of it and be forever out-of-date.  Not to mention that if
we try hard to keep everything current we'll spread already-thin
resources even thinner.

Our project has worked fairly well so far (since 1999) by staying as
generic as possible, releasing source versions only.  Specific users
or developers sometimes tweak for specific operating systems and
release binary versions from time to time, but those are done by
individuals, not by the project as a whole.  We encourage them to do
so for those particular OS flavors that they're most familiar with.

This is what I've done with the SuSE and LSB releases, what others
have done for Debian, Ubuntu, Cygwin, OSX, etc.

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