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Offline nloewen

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patching with rbutil
« on: November 22, 2008, 02:51:18 PM »
Could a feature be implemented into the rockbox utility so that you can feed it a patch and it will compile and insert it into the current rockbox code for you? This would be very helpful as I was unable to figure out how to compile properly.
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Offline bluebrother

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Re: patching with rbutil
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2008, 03:19:23 PM »
No.

Patching and building is a process that's too complex (and too error prone) to support it from an installer tool like Rockbox Utility. Besides, we don't support patched builds anyway unless you are working on a patch, so there's no point in this for normal users, and people working on a patch don't need Rockbox Utility for installation.
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Offline nloewen

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Re: patching with rbutil
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2008, 05:52:39 PM »
Ok. Thats understandable. I was just trying to make it easier to add some nice features.
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Offline AlexP

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Re: patching with rbutil
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2008, 08:19:33 AM »
Quote from: nloewen on November 22, 2008, 05:52:39 PM
I was just trying to make it easier to add some nice features.

Patching and compiling is trivial compared to writing the patch - this function wouldn't make it any easier to add nice features, for the reasons bluebrother outlined.
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