Re: gnuzilla, iceweasel, thundersomewhat

[Karl Berry]

    No, we keep on our CVS repository only modified files and arrange them to

Right, and that's worked fine so far, since you have been doing all the
programming.

But now that Alexander is interested in also pursuing development, it
seems like it would be better to have the actual sources in CVS, that
can be checked out/built/updated in the normal way, instead of through a
process that happens only on your machine.  How else can multiple people
on the project work together?

    Do you mean sync it only on upstream releases or sync it at specific
    intervals?

As I implied before, I think our first goal should be to sync only at
releases, as we have been doing.  That is ambitious enough!  After that
is working and something has been released, we could consider trying to 

    many files have to be checked one by one.

I know patches can't just be blindly applied and the result expected to
work.  But isn't applying the diffs still the place to start?  I mean,
somehow our sources have to get updated from their new sources, and how
to do that if not by applying the diffs?  Probably get hints about
problem areas by hunks that fail to apply, too.

I guess the other way to do it would be to diff our tree against the
previous mozilla release (the one we started from), and then apply our
changes to their new release.  Of course, again there will be plenty of
manual checking afterwards, there's no way to avoid it.

    we need a script that cleans the original tree from files we don't
    need;

I will try to make a start at it as soon as I can, but I can't check
every file I found (let alone all the files I didn't find).  Alexander,
if it's something you can push, that would be great.  Otherwise I will
put out a notice for more volunteers.

Thanks,
karl