Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:28:39 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air |
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:17:11PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > And I still maintain that a stripped out, redistributable, clone/pull only > binary tool without the restrictive license would be a real smart business > move.
I'm trying to see why.
Our commercial customers don't care about this so there isn't any business incentive there.
The actual BK users don't care about this, they use BK.
The BK detractors aren't going to touch anything that we produce, they are convinced we're out to do them harm somehow.
So who's left?
And a better question is why doesn't some open source person do this? All you need to do is create a network daemon which responds to clone requests and pull requests. The clone request sends across a tarball and the client side untars it. The pull request sends a changeset key (which was sent in the last clone/pull) and gets a tarball of new/changed files, the new top of trunk changeset key, and a list of renames. Actually the easier way is to do it more like diff does, for each file that has been changed, send across a "delete this file and any directories the deletion leaves empty" list, and then you unpack the tarball on top of the tree.
This would be easy to build but I don't see it solving anything. All it does is act as a replacement for rsync. It doesn't have revision history, you can't do diffs, etc. As soon as this exists, people will ask you for all the other features. Which is why I don't want to build it, I don't want to get sucked into the "please rebuild BK as a GPLed product" business.
What am I missing? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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