External SVN item in kdebase/runtime/nepomuk/services/queryservice/lib

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Sep 18 20:22:12 BST 2008


On 18.09.08 21:14:40, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 18.09.08 16:55:13, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:11:27 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > It's just like bison: imagine you have the .y source file and you commit
> > > > the generated .cpp file. But that .cpp file requires headers from bison.
> > >
> > > The headers are also generated by bison. Which is different that the
> > > above case, where the memory-pool headers are independent of the
> > > generated code. And no, I won't copy the code around as its already 3
> > > places thats using that code (IIRC). Thats called a maintenance
> > > nightmare.
> > 
> > Agreed. They should be installed, because svn:externals are a maintenance 
> > nightmare.
> 
> So far I don't see the maintenance nightmare with svn:externals - except
> that git doesn't support them, which can be solved on the git side. 
> 
> Anyway, KDevelop won't force people to build playground software before
> building kdevelop, so a hard dependency on kdevelop-pg-qt is not going
> to happen. 

PS: Just read your answer regarding svn:externals support in git and the
half-way its possible there. For this particular case that would solve
the problem, as I don't have a problem moving kdevelop-pg-qt into a
separate git module.

Andreas

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