[yocto-ab] eglibc - move under yocto?

[Cherry, John]

Thanks Richard.  The point about the SVN->git migration is a good one for the move.  I'll raise this with the EGLIB maintainers.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Purdie [mailto:richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:29 AM
> To: Stewart, David C
> Cc: Anderson, Paul; Philip Balister; Cherry, John; yocto-
> ab at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: RE: [yocto-ab] eglibc - move under yocto?
> 
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 01:57 +0100, Stewart, David C wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > John - I am very supportive of this move. I think it will help both
> > the EGLIBC project as well as the Yocto Project. Excellent synergy.
> >
> > I can't remember if RP is on this mailing list, just copying him to
> be
> > sure he is OK with it. I'm pretty sure he will be happy with it as
> > well.
> 
> I'm on the list and am supportive. It would show Yocto is not just
> about
> build systems and both projects would be stronger together. Its
> therefore in keeping with what we're doing.
> 
> We'd need to be sure that the eglibc people are happy with the change.
> 
> On a practical note, we've gone to effort on the Yocto side to only
> have
> git as the source control system. I know eglibc is using svn and I
> think
> there are (were?) good reasons for it. I notice glibc moved to git so
> perhaps they would be interested in migrating too? I think glibc was
> cvs
> so they likely went svn to stay similar? Anyhow, this is a detail but
> worth thinking about given glibc switched.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard