Re: proper wic integration

[Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:18:51PM +0100, Henning Schild wrote:
> i started looking into intetgrating wic into the build process. And i
> have a first working version of that code.
> On the way i found that Isar is using a massively messed-with version
> of wic. In my point of view that is an absolute show-blocker for any
> code that builds on top of that.

It depends on your priorities. Our goal at ilbers is to give people working
code first, merge with upstream second.


> Before anything gets done with wic, we need to revert all patches that
> touch wic. We should not have a fork of wic but use an unmodified
> version of it.

I agree with the latter. If you come up with an implementation that does it
without modifying wic, we'd gladly review it. Before that, nothing will be
reverted in master.


> So this mail is just to let you know that i am looking into that.

Thanks, this is important to know.


> A first working commit can be found here:
> https://github.com/henning-schild-work/isar/commit/eeba383177a95bf8b03cba70e1525f65813b4df5

The commit comment contains dirty words. Please use respectful expressions and
tone.


> To get that merged i will first move to an untouched version of wic and
> rebase it on top of that.

That is fine with me.


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