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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Chris,

On 23 July 2015 at 03:36, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
>>

Applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!

>>
>> 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).

That sounds like a useful model. However there are so few patches to
patman - is it worth it?

Regards,
Simon