[X2go-Dev] nx-libs -> nightly-builds

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Di, Nov 22, 2011 at 13:02:52 (CET), Mike Gabriel wrote:

> Hi Reinhard, hi Morty,
>
> On Di 22 Nov 2011 08:51:37 CET Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>> On Di, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:11:13 (CET), Moritz Struebe wrote:
>>
>>> On 2011-11-22 06:53, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>> What about adding x2goagent to nx-libs.git?
>>> It's an application, not a lib. And it's x2go not Nomachine....
>>
>> it is mostly the NXagent, which is built in the same source tree as the
>> other sources. Granted, it has some x2go patches added on top of it, but
>> including it to nx-libs.git seems very natural to me.
>
> I would love to keep nx-libs.git as NoMachine-like as possible. We
> currently have NoMachine upstream tarballs + patches + /debian folder
> in the Git project. To me that is a very pure state and I would not
> like to taint it with X2Go patches (i.e. branding). The current
> nx-libs.git can be used by any NoMachine project.
>
> For x2goagent I would love keep it as a separate Git project and see
> most of NX code stripped of (x2goagent is a fork). This would  basically
> be everything except the programs/Xserver folder. I have a  draft for
> that that does not build yet and I would love to use quilt  for
> implementing that change so nxagent upgrades are easier to  incorporate
> later.

Then you have to *manually* ensure that the common sources between
x2goagent.git and nx-libs.git stay in sync. I'm sure that on some update
this will be forgotten and you'll get again funny and hard to detect
crashes.


Have fun!
Reinhard

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