[Kde-scm-interest] [Proposal] Package splitting with thin meta-repos

[Ian Monroe]

2010/2/6 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> Em Sábado 6. Fevereiro 2010, às 23.16.25, Ingo Klöcker escreveu:
>> On Saturday 06 February 2010, Patrick J. Volkerding wrote:
>> > Please don't ruin KDE.  Having a reasonable number of source tarballs
>> > is one of KDE's greatest strengths.  It's nice to see a project of
>> > KDE's complexity that can be compiled by a technically-inclined end
>> > user, and not only by the project's developers (or people who are
>> > nearly so).
>>
>> The number of tarballs we provide is largely unrelated to the number of
>> Git repos we split KDE SVN into. We can easily put the content of
>> several Git repos into one larger tarball. So for distros using tarballs
>> (i.e. all binary distros AFAIK) nothing has to change. But the distros
>> could choose to use the smaller per Git repo tarballs which we should
>> also provide. That's up to the distro to decide.
>
> No, we can't do that.
>
> The moment that we start splitting the repositories, the CMakeLists.txt files
> will start to drift. It will be impossible to do in-module and out-of-module
> builds with the same source code.

It's possible, but it is a pain to maintain. This was the situation
that Amarok 2 was in for its years in extragear/multimedia SVN. We
basically only supported checking out Amarok by itself, but the ten
people who built it from multimedia would be annoyed whenever we broke
things for them.

Ian