Is there an appetite for merging downstream forks?

[eugenesan]

There are at least 3 active forks of the project:

1. https://github.com/cshandley-uk/bash_glim

• Introduces second partition for bigger ISOs
• Adds formatting script
• Misc changes

3. https://github.com/eugenesan/glim
   • Based on the above and adds Windows support
   • Contains various changes from other forks (additional Distros)
   • Synced with current main project updates
   • Misc improvements to Grub portion to help with development
   • Fixes/Updates for various Distros
4. https://github.com/ngaro/glim
   • Ported install script to Perl and
   • Adds formatting functionality into the main install script

"GLIM space" starting to fragment and I'd like to know if there is a need, capacity and desire to consolidate.

[ngaro]

Sounds like a good idea but this could be hard. My fork is starting to diverge from the original GLIM:

• I renamed it to CIBU and it's now at https://github.com/ngaro/cibu so people don't accidentally use mine instead of the official GLIM. (I would consider CIBU as unstable and GLIM stable for now)
• I took the idea of chhandley-uk and also use a 2nd partition for the iso's. The difference: In my version it's not optional. The reason: I want to add a script in the future to convert a Ventoy stick into a GLIM/CIBU-stick without having to remove all iso's and add them again after reformatting. (Ventoy also uses a 2nd partition for the iso's)
• The partition labels no longer contain "GLIM". (Although that's easy to change back. It's a global variable in my script)
• I discovered https://github.com/Mexit/MultiOS-USB . It has a lot of features so I will take ideas from that repo and rewrite them so that they work in CiBu. This will cause it to diverge even more.
• I am not going to switch back to regular shell. I need a language that is more "powerful"

For now I am going to:

• Continue to take ideas everywhere I can find them and put them into CIBU. You are all free to take ideas from me too, or even code as long as you follow the GPLv3 conditions
• When I add/adjust inc-distro.cfg files, I'll also send a PR to this repo (as long as CIBU is compatible enough with GLIM to also make them work here)