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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 06 February 2010, Ian Monroe wrote:
> 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.

Damn. I thought it was easy. :-(


Regards,
Ingo

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