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Originally Posted by jharker
Does that make sense? I'm fairly new to project administration, so advice and suggestions are happily welcomed!  |
I develop software for 20 years now... Maintaining a (fairly) large set of interdependant software components is a *very* complex matter if these parts have different branches (say you want to use a new contentLister that uses a modified liberpc in combination with an older displayMgr...) As the number of components and versions increases, it quickly becomes a nightmare... These poblems can be managed by packemanager (like rpm, apt, pkg...), but packaging and releasing is not a trivial task!
Personally, I will probably never reflash my Iliad with an community developped OS (how to get back if it does'nt work?). I'll probably only install some improved progams (that stay compatible wite the rest of the system) or new ones.
Whatever one does, I believe that the following things are usefull for everybody (and an easy first step):
- add documentation to the (original sources)
- automatically generate docs from whatever set of sources