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Impressive! How often do you hear about two open-source projects merging? Forking is much more common. I can't even recollect other instances of merging. Best
by mdemare 18y ago
Impressive! How often do you hear about two open-source projects merging? Forking is much more common. I can't even recollect other instances of merging.
Best of luck to the two teams with making it work!
- jm4 18y agoCompiz and Beryl. Beryl forked from Compiz and, if I remember correctly, relations were very sour between the two projects. Several months later they merged into Compiz Fusion.
- tlrobinson 18y agoKHTML and WebKit (though I'm not sure what the status of the "unforking" is): http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/07/23/the-unforking-of-kdes-khtml-and-webkit http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/07/23/the-unf...
- dabeeeenster 18y agoWebWork and Struts merged to become Struts 2...
- rapind 18y agoThis is the best comparison. Struts was great when it came out and inspired a lot of 2nd gen frameworks like Webwork. Webwork was very clever and much improved over struts. However, struts was far more popular. Bringing the two together created a better product that was adopted by the mainstream java web developers. It was a great way to get the developers that were stuck on struts (for whatever reason, most likely to support existing code bases) into a better design. In about a year I could write the paragraph above substituting rails for struts, merb for webwork, and java for ruby.
- davidw 18y agogcc forked at one point, and was subsequently merged back into the main branch. Still, though, it's not an everyday thing.
- cosmo7 18y agoCan people stop coming up with examples? You're ruining mdemare's argument.
- rmaccloy 18y agoWell, in the case of GCC/egcs and KHTML/WebKit, it's not quite a precise merge; egcs and WebKit won.