[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] patman: add distutils based installer

[Chris Packham]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> 2015-07-23 11:10 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On 22 July 2015 at 03:21, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> To make it easier to use patman on other projects add a distutils style
>>> installer. Now patman can be installed with
>>>
>>>   cd u-boot/tools/patman && python setup.py install
>>>
>>> There are also the usual distutils options for creating source/binary
>>> distributions of patman.
>>>
>
>
> Maybe we should split patman into a separate project someday.
> It is not tightly coupled with the u-boot core.
>

It could be treated the same way the git project treats gitk and
git-gui. The sources are still included in the main project and
distributed along with the rest of it but they are merged from an
external upstream where the real development happens. The upstream
project is also free to make releases on whatever schedule they
determine (although these days there isn't much development going on
in for gitk/git-gui).