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Parallel forks

Parallel forks

Posted Aug 19, 2004 11:20 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: Parallel forks

Consider history: XEmacs has been copying source code from Emacs for what -- ten years or so?
(Emacs doesn't take source code back the other way because they want copyright for the FSF.)

I would be sort of surprised if parallel forks weren't the most common kind. If the two projects
are really going in different directions then I could see non-parallel forks, but does that actually
happen in practice?

I think a common result is that one prong of the fork dies or remerges. Remember how egcs
gave gcc a kick in the butt that popped it past the gcc 2.7.2.3 blockage into gcc 2.9x?


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Parallel forks

Posted Aug 19, 2004 18:26 UTC (Thu) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]

If they are really going into different directions, they become different
projects, not just forks. Film-Gimp is a good example of this:
http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/

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