Splitting the calligra repository

[Cyrille Berger]

Hello,

On 2014-08-18 09:56, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> I know we sort of decided to only do this after 2.9, but I just picked
> up Jonathan Riddell's discussion on irc on how our current repository
> and release makes life harder for packagers -- basically a split up
> repo would be easier, apparently.

Do they want separate repository or separate tarballs ? Because, I would 
think that what they really want is the later, and separate repository 
create some inconveniences for developers (and submodules have its own 
set of caveats).
So an alternative would be to keep one repository, with "folders" that 
are then packaged separately.

The way I see it:

* separate repositories
  advantage: release manager friendly, since it has already a "tarball" 
structure the build should be well tested
  inconvenient: developer unfriendly, make it more difficult to move 
code, have synchronizations issues (not sure if bisect will work 
well)...
* single repository split in multiple tarballs
  advantage: developer friendly
  inconvenient: release manager unfriendly, since developers would still 
be building as a single unit, there might be some rough edge after 
splitting up


That said, I am not even sure that "single repository split in multiple 
tarballs" is that release manager unfriendly, and we probably can make 
it so that it is not.

-- 
Cyrille Berger Skott