Sonnet crescendo 7200 and OS4.1

[Karlos]

Wouldn't porting OS4's bootloader to WiiU custom firmware be simpler?

https://hackinformer.com/2016/12/12/wiiu-rednand-cfw-tutorial/

Hey, 2005 called and wants it's thread back.

[Karlos]

@lou_dias

Start by porting AROS to it then you will have a case to make for the technical side. Unfortunately porting a commercial OS to a commercial platform is a totally different problem.

Otherwise it's all just wishlisting. Id like OS4 and MorphOS porting to run on my deluxe ten flavour ice cream making machine and its faster than the washing machine.

[Karlos]

Dear God, it really is 2005 again. Make it stop.

[Karlos]

Guys let's keep the tone a bit less hostile, shall we? You're actually making me moderate posts. On a phone. On public transport. This does not make me happy.

[Karlos]

And the AROS development community really has it's act together. Using an SVN server is particularly neat.

I'm not quite sure what to make of that statement. Do you think the other operating system camps don't use version control or something* ?

*that said, the Linux kernel was maintained at one point as a bunch of tarballs. Torvalds invented git because he didn't feel svn was suitable. Having used CVS ans SVN for longer than I can remember, git feels weird to me, but I'm getting there.

[Karlos]

Having had access to the source repository in the past, I can confirm that the OS4 sources are maintained under version control. There really is no alternative when working on projects that size.

I was just bemused by Iggy's statement which made it sound like version control was some sort of revelation that only the AROS team used.

[Karlos]

Yeah, git is fine. It just takes a while to get used to the non centralised approach. Almost all the criticisms I've seen levelled at svn over the years seem to be self inflicted problems but I agree, git is so flexible in comparison.

[Karlos]

What does anything you just said have to do with what I wrote? I simply pointed out that all large projects depend on version control.

Your previous post made it sound as if using SVN for managing your OS sources was somehow unique to AROS, when in fact I can't think of an example of a large project that isn't managed via version control, whether it's svn, git, mercurial or even CVS.

[Karlos]

What amazes me is that allowing contributors to alter existing code doesn't create chaos

It shouldn't, that's exactly what version control is for. Version control isn't just using a version control tool, it's about doing so with a workflow. Usually you make your changes in your own branch, keep it up to date with any important upstream changes and when it's ready, it's merged back. Usually with some sort of review process that the project maintainers have made policy. Whether you are using a centralised repository model like svn or a distributed one like git, it's policy (and permission management) that prevent unreviewed code making it's way into production.

[Karlos]

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