Re: [Om-synth] patch repository

[Dave Robillard]

On Wed, 2005-19-10 at 18:12 +0200, elgrande wrote:
> Atte André Jensen wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > A while back Dave expressed a wish for an online repository for 
> > sharing om patches. Are there any news on this?
> >
> 
> wouldn't it be easy like this:
> 
> Add a cvs module (e.g. om_shared_patches) to the om repository.
> 
> First let's assume some patches are already in there.
> 
> Then it works like this:
> Have a cvs wrapper integrated in om_gtk which works like this:
> - Check out module shared_patches to a unique location (e.g. 
> /usr/local/share/om_shared_patches)
> - Add the /usr/local/share/om_shared_patches (and subdirectories, if 
> categorizing is done this way) to patch-loading-path.
> => The shared patches are available.
> 
> But were are the patches from?
> For adding a patch, it could work like this:
> - Have a upload-patch functionalilty in om.
> - This lets you select a patch, copies it to your workarea 
> (/usr/local/share/om_shared_patches) and does a cvs add & commit on the 
> file. (Additional funtionality like adding it to a category aka subdir 
> may be there)

This would require every user to have write access to CVS!  Even if that
were possible, no way in hell is it going to happen :)

Many end-user types don't even have CVS installed anyway.  Thanks for
the idea though. :)

-DR-