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Android source available

Android source available

Posted Oct 21, 2008 19:10 UTC (Tue) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760)
Parent article: Android source available

ant the code is hosted on android.kernel.org. Cool.


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Android source available

Posted Oct 21, 2008 20:43 UTC (Tue) by armijn (guest, #3653) [Link]

Odd. I thought kernel.org was supposed to be vendor neutral. I don't think Android is vendor neutral, it is just Google's phone platform.

I think that's EXACTLY why

Posted Oct 21, 2008 21:29 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Odd. I thought kernel.org was supposed to be vendor neutral. I don't think Android is vendor neutral, it is just Google's phone platform.

Actually no, that's OHA's platform. I think that's the reason. I'm pretty sure http://code.google.com has enough horsepower to handle the load, but other participants wanted some place not controlled by Google. At the moment a lot code out there is Google's creation, true, but the idea is that this situation is temporary.

Let's see how well it'll go. Results of previous such tries (RedHat with Fedora and Sun with OpenSolaris) are certainly mixed...

I think that's EXACTLY why

Posted Oct 22, 2008 9:59 UTC (Wed) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

> I'm pretty sure http://code.google.com has enough horsepower to handle the load, but other participants wanted some place not controlled by Google.

I think the reason might be that Google Code can't handle git, only subversion (last I heard. If that changed, then ignore this comment).

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