[Kde-scm-interest] Layout of Git repositories for KDE

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:11:11PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Thursday 01 November 2007 11:30:17 Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:42:51AM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > >   KDE.git/
> > >     kdelibs.git
> > >     kdepimlibs.git
> > >     kdebase.git
> > >     kdeaccessibility.git
> > >     kdeedu.git
> >
> > no. we must move away from "blob" modules. for one, they are often too
> > big already. for two, it is impossible to "move" submodules via
> > supermodule links when the granularity is too small.
> 
> I echo Thomas here: I did not understand what you mean.
> 
> What do you mean by "blob" modules? Are you talking about the big
> modules we have, with several libraries and applications inside
> (kdelibs.git, kdebase.git above)?
> 
yes. e.g., one cannot re-link something from kdebase into kdelibs when
both are monolythic blobs. of course, one has to consider new modules
thoroughly from the start when the theoretical advantage of fine
granularity is supposed to help in practice.

> Or are you talking about the supermodule concept (KDE.git above,
> extragear.git, libs.git below)?
>
this hardly qualifies as a "blob", by any stretch of this "word". ;-)

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