[Kde-scm-interest] On Amarok Switching to Git

[Mark Constable]

On 2009-01-21, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Again, this is Git: there is *NO* canonical, central, unique source. 
> Anyone's Git repository is as good as any other.

Sure, but they may differ so which one is the most "right one"
to use at any point in time. This is not just a packagers issue,
if I want to build the Qt mediaplayer example and actually have
a chance of it working, and I happen to be also be running KDE,
then which of the competing phonon backends are expected to work?

> Packagers and distros always package the Phonon that Phonon developers 
> release.

This packager provides daily svn binary packages so I can't
rely on a stale official tarball releases. I need to ideally
track a single upstream GIT repo. The most trouble free one.

> You shouldn't have to worry about where it's hosted and how many 
> branches there are. The same thing happens for the Linux kernel: if 
> packagers deal with that, they can deal with Phonon.

Packagers and distros end up using the "canonical" Linus tree.

--markc