old and new ubi utilities

old and new ubi utilities

[Artem Bityutskiy]

Hi Frank, Andreas,

long time ago for various reasons (many of which I do not remember) I
decided not to use the ubi utilities implemented by you, but to re-write
them and create new ubi utilities.

When I implemented the new ubi utilities, I moved the old ones to
	mtd-utils/ubi-utils/old-utils/
This caused criticism and I had to return the old utilities back, and
put my new utilities to
	mtd-utils/ubi-utils/new-utils.

It seems that nowadays the old ubi utilities are unused and
unmaintained. And I've got a question from Sidney if it would be
possible to change the MTD repository layout and move the new utilities
to
	mtd-utils/ubi-utils
and old utilities to
	mtd-utils/ubi-utils/old-utils
just like I have originally done.

So, will you mind if I do this, taking into account that the old
utilities are not widely used and not maintained?

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

Re: old and new ubi utilities

[Andreas Arnez]

Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> writes:

> It seems that nowadays the old ubi utilities are unused and
> unmaintained. And I've got a question from Sidney if it would be
> possible to change the MTD repository layout and move the new utilities
> to
> 	mtd-utils/ubi-utils
> and old utilities to
> 	mtd-utils/ubi-utils/old-utils
> just like I have originally done.
>
> So, will you mind if I do this, taking into account that the old
> utilities are not widely used and not maintained?

We can adjust to such restructuring.  We may still stick to the old
utilities for now, because the last time I looked, the new utilities
were lacking some functionality we relied upon.

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Re: old and new ubi utilities

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:33 +0100, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> writes:
> 
> > It seems that nowadays the old ubi utilities are unused and
> > unmaintained. And I've got a question from Sidney if it would be
> > possible to change the MTD repository layout and move the new utilities
> > to
> > 	mtd-utils/ubi-utils
> > and old utilities to
> > 	mtd-utils/ubi-utils/old-utils
> > just like I have originally done.
> >
> > So, will you mind if I do this, taking into account that the old
> > utilities are not widely used and not maintained?
> 
> We can adjust to such restructuring.  We may still stick to the old
> utilities for now, because the last time I looked, the new utilities
> were lacking some functionality we relied upon.

Thanks. Sure, I'm not talking about removing the older stuff, just
moving it one directory level deeper :-)

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

Re: old and new ubi utilities

[Frank Haverkamp]

Hi Artem,

thanks for informing us. The change is fine for me too.
Regards,

Frank

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