[erlang-questions] Erlang 10 years of Open Source; it is time for the next step

[Masklinn]

On 17 Mar 2008, at 13:52 , Convey Christian J NPRI wrote:
> The other repository has the proprietary component.  To build the  
> proprietary component, you must have built the open source component  
> and perhaps also have installed it.

 >

It could be even simpler: the proprietary "component" could "simply"  
be a fork of the open-source one, additions to the open-source product  
would be merged into the proprietary one as needed but not the other  
way around. Mercurial and Git both provide facilities for that kind of  
workflow.