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

[Simon Glass]

Hi Otavio,

On 28 July 2015 at 11:45, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>> On 23 July 2015 at 03:36, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> Sure it is; I have asked it in past I think.
>
> I would like to have it in Debian, Arch and other linux distros and
> get more people using it to manage patch series. It is hard to explain
> it can be used for other project it being inside U-Boot source code.

OK so if we do this, what's the best way to get a repo and a mailing list?

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Regards,
Simon