[FusionDev] Compiz Fusion and compiz compatibility

[Guillaume Seguin]

2007/8/20, Danny Baumann <dannybaumann at web.de>:
> Hi,
>
> > I've understood our plan to be to do a Compiz Fusion 0.6 release based
> > on Compiz 0.6. This begs the question about what to do with the
> > current code.
> >
> > It makes sense to me to branch all compiz fusion repositories for 0.6
> > and cherry pick away, as is the plan with Compiz 0.6. How do we do
> > this in practice, what with the automerging of plugins and such?
>
> I would think the best idea would be to branch plugins-* and
> compizconfig/* only, not the individual plugin repos. It should be
> possible to cherrypick among the merged repos as well, and after all,
> the merged repos are what we release ;-)
>

That's what I did a few hours ago :)

> > I'm bringing this up because compiz is changing and we can't be
> > compatible with both 0.6 and head without branching, and we have to
> > deal with this because of bugs like "libcompizconfig doesn't compile"
> > [1]. Which will be relevant for plugins too now of course.
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.opencompositing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360
>
> I think those folks who think that _any_ Git head version of Compiz
> Fusion has to compile with _any_ Git head version of Compiz are a bit
> weird anyway :-/
>

Yeah but several days of complete breakage looks a bit unprofessionnal :x

Regards,
Guillaume