Having a Tier 0 for cmake and git submodules

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Sun Nov 10 17:12:02 UTC 2013


On 2013-11-10, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> Since there's been several times discussions about having a kind of "Ti=
> er 0"=20
> for building our frameworks containing what is right now in ECM kde-mod=
> ules=20
> directory, but the idea was never really on the table because of the ex=
> tra=20
> dependency it'd bring, I looked a bit at the git submodule option to ge=
> t=20
> there.

Why move it out of e-c-m ?

> Also git archive ignores submodules when generating the archive... But =
> that's=20
> easy to fix and there's a git archive-all script available which does t=
> he=20
> recursive export.

And if a distribution need to patch whatever is in the 'submodule', they
have a enormous useless piece of work ahead for them.

No. Let us not do that.

/Sune



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