Re: rename grub to grub-legacy ?

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:36:51AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 11:53 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 07.10.2008, 21:24 +0200 schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji:
> > > 
> > > I have no objection. Sorry for a slow response.
> > 
> > So if I understand it right then
> > `svn mv svn+ssh://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub 
> > svn+ssh://svn.sv.gnu.org/grub/trunk/grub-legacy'
> > should do it, inclusive saving the history?
> > I just better ask before trying it out :)
> 
> Preserving history is not perfect.  I believe it's impossible to refer
> to the old revisions by the new names in diff, so one would need to use
> old paths for the pre-move revisions.  Anyway, "svn mv" is the
> Subversion way of doing things.  If we are certain that we want to move
> the repository, it's better to do it early.  It's also better to do it
> when there are no unmerged branches.
> 
> I believe Okuji wanted to use a different naming scheme, that would put
> "grub2" or "grub-legacy" above trunk.  You may want to check it to avoid
> moving things twice.
> 
> All the above notwithstanding, I'm still skeptical about the whole
> moving idea based on my experience with other projects.  Repositories
> are for developers and should be used in the way that minimizes troubles
> for developers rather than reduces the entry barrier for newbies.
> 
> If GRUB2 is moved in any way, I'm not sure I'll be able to keep the git
> mirror at repo.or.cz up to date.  It doesn't seem that git-svn can deal
> with it.  I'm going to try to keep is running, but I cannot promise it.

Perhaps we should just rename the tarball in next release.  The point was to
send a message down to distributors, not to create an inconvenience for us.

Okuji, what do you think?

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