[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Mysterious branching

[From: Johan Bilien]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007, Murray Cumming wrote:
> My life would be easier if I knew what svn branches existed for the
> various module versions used by the various Maemo versions. 
> 
> For instance, I'd like to know where in svn I can find the branch for
> the version of hildon-fm that's in Maemo 3.0 (bora, for the N800,
> sometimes called IT-2007).
> 
> I see a "maemo-branches" directory, but that doesn't include anything
> for IT-2007:
> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/maemo-branches/
> 
> I also see a "branches" directory with separate directories for each
> modeule:
> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/branches/
> but that just has various branches with cryptic names, and I don't know
> which one is the one in Maemo 3.0. For instance:
> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/branches/hildon-fm/

I think the one used for IT-2007 is branches/hildon-fm/1.x

> In comparison, GNOME uses the same branch name for all modules in a
> specific GNOME version, such as "gnome-2-14", which is nice and simple.

Yes we have a lot to improve in this regards. Some effort is ongoing to
harmonize the presentation of our modules, at least in the HAF.


> Someone really needs to put this information online, such as on this
> page:
> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoModules/3%2e0

I updated it for hildon-fm.
-- 
Johan Bilien
<jobi at via.ecp.fr>