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Subject [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?
> Hi,
> so, to recap from last two immense threads (not counting KOffice one
> now), seems like we're stuck between two situations:
>
> - Not splitting the main modules. Would work great but will fail once
> we try to move stuff between the modules (I still think that this is
> not a huge usecase but.. okay)
> - Splitting the main modules. Then we're doomed in a mess of
> dependencies, repos, metarepos, and so on. Distros like slackware
> won't forgive us, KDE developer groups (e.g. kdeedu) will hate us, and
> personally I'm not a big fan of it either.
This is only a problem if you reject jhbuild. Both gnome and xorg use this with git without problems. Xorg has dozens of repos and jhbuild works fine with it.
> This looks like a dead end to me.
>
> So, what are we doing now? Giving up on git and telling people to just
> screw up and use git-svn? Think more? Hire someone to make a better
> git? Or what?
> Does anybody have concrete suggestions, comments, or anything else?
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo
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<br>From Riccardo Iaconelli <<a href="mailto:riccardo at kde.org">riccardo at kde.org</a>>
<br>Sent: Fri, 12 Feb 2010, 13:35:47 EET
<br>To <a href="mailto:kde-scm-interest at kde.org">kde-scm-interest at kde.org</a>
<br>Subject [Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?
<br>
<br>> Hi,
<br>> so, to recap from last two immense threads (not counting KOffice one
<br>> now), seems like we're stuck between two situations:
<br>>
<br>> - Not splitting the main modules. Would work great but will fail once
<br>> we try to move stuff between the modules (I still think that this is
<br>> not a huge usecase but.. okay)
<br>> - Splitting the main modules. Then we're doomed in a mess of
<br>> dependencies, repos, metarepos, and so on. Distros like slackware
<br>> won't forgive us, KDE developer groups (e.g. kdeedu) will hate us, and
<br>> personally I'm not a big fan of it either.
<br>
<br>This is only a problem if you reject jhbuild.  Both gnome and xorg use this with git without problems.  Xorg has dozens of repos and jhbuild works fine with it.
<br>
<br>
<br>> This looks like a dead end to me.
<br>>
<br>> So, what are we doing now? Giving up on git and telling people to just
<br>> screw up and use git-svn? Think more? Hire someone to make a better
<br>> git? Or what?
<br>> Does anybody have concrete suggestions, comments, or anything else?
<br>>
<br>> Bye,
<br>> -Riccardo
<br>> --
<br>> Pace Peace Paix Paz Frieden Pax Pokój Friður Fred Béke 和平
<br>> Hasiti Lapé Hetep Malu Mир Wolakota Santiphap Irini Peoch שלו×
<br>> Shanti Vrede Baris Rój MÃr Taika Rongo Sulh Mir Py'guapy í‰í™”
<br>> _______________________________________________
<br>> Kde-scm-interest mailing list
<br>> <a href="mailto:Kde-scm-interest at kde.org">Kde-scm-interest at kde.org</a>
<br>> <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest</a>
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