[linux-dvb] Re: 1.0.2 Release?

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Johannes Stezenbach schrieb:

> Please don't do that.
>
> I've already created a new dvb-apps CVS tree into which I want to
> move the the userspace stuff from the old "DVB" tree.
>
> The goal is to separate drivers and libs/applications into
> two separate packages, mainly because the DVB drivers are
> already shipped with 2.6.x so you don't need to download them
> again.
>
> I also have no plans of doing a DVB-1.0.2 release, once
> dvb-apps is populated I would rather release both a dvb-kernel
> and dvb-apps package and officially deprecate the old DVB tree.
I think Johannes is right here. Running two packages including driver 
and apps doesn't make any sense but a lot of work for maintaining and 
syncing both branches.

I agree here to have a kernel-related driver package and a user-space 
apps-package. That system also works well for the ALSA-guys.

The drivers should be developed in DVB-kernel CVS and stable releases 
should be branched off (just take the current code in CVS and do some 
bug-hunting). The stable code should be released and sent to kernel.org.

So you get the drivers with the kernel and you can update in case 
driver-CVS or -release solves some bugs you have in the kernel.

This would increase development speed and reliabitily of the drivers.
I think the problem of syncing both branches is one of the reasons for 
the bugs and the slow development of the DVB-drivers.

Rene



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