Re: [MiNT] AtariForge

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:10 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> Is FreeMiNT/SpareMiNT going to get registered as a project on
> AtariForge ?
> 

Unlikely - freemint considering it is a kernel just needs too much
attention to just be a "project" on atariforge..  That's why it has it's
own website and cvs server and such... In fact somehow the freemint cvs
server has adopted many projects which are more suited to atariforge.

> I think it'd be great to get more popularity in using AtariForge for
> Atari projects.
> 

Me too.

> I know that we're using the resources of AtariForge already, but it'd be
> really good to start using the bug tracking features etc. 
> 
> I've just registered as a user and I'm willing to help out.

Too few users and developers to make it hugely viable, however there is
a bugtracker for freemint that I think people just need to use.  Right
now there's not a terribly huge amount of freemint bugs.  Everything is
in kind of a "gotcha" stage.  XaAES could have made good use of the bug
tracker but things are fairly perfect in that now... At least under
ARAnyM.  

The path that I would like everything to follow is very soon to upgrade
to the sparemint development site at http://dev.sparemint.org...  The IP
on here is wrong, I have to chat with Rob about getting it updated ;)
Just add that to your hosts file and set the IP to 66.92.233.10 and the
site should load properly.  Basically a yum/up2date style automatic
updater/net installation client.  The server side has a lot of code and
maintains a database of packages ...  The rationale for me is twofold:

1. sparemint cannot support multiple repositories right now so having a
68060 or a gcc3 specific sparemint distribution is out of the question
without losing what you have now.
2. sparemint does not maintain archives of all the older packages which
I also think is important in case there's bugs - the Sparemint Update
Manager client will be able to upgrade or downgrade packages at will.
Things will be more idea once we have a dynamic library linking system
setup.

Thanks,
Mark