[Kde-scm-interest] Phase 2 started: making each submodule (=future repo) self-contained

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
<kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> (was this intentionally off-list? feel free to reply to list again if replying
> :) )

Oops, no, I hit reply instead of reply all by mistake.

>
> Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2012, 07:49:54 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
>> Friedrich,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
>>
>> <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > so besides phase 3 (Write migration rules) phase 2 of the migration
>> > process is reached as well:
>> > "Split KDESDK's CMakeLists.txt file into separate individual top-level
>> > files for each repo, KDESDK's build file only references each repository
>> > (nothing more)"
>>
>> This is awesome.  Good job!
>
> :)
>
>> > While I do not yet know how to deal with the doc/ folder (and hopefully
>> > there are no other possible stoppers), the plan now is to get to the
>> > state where all toplevel dirs are a 1:1 map of the planned git repos,
>> > with the toplevel CMakeLists.txt of the kdesdk module being "just a list
>> > of add_subdirectory( blah )".
>>
>> In kde-edu we moved the doc folders inside each application's
>> top-level folder in svn.  Then had to tweak the CMakeLists.txt to
>> install them to the right place.  I believe we moved for example
>> doc/kanagram to kanagram/doc.
>
> Yes, at least this told me the history of kdeedu/doc:
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/doc/CMakeLists.txt?view=log&pathrev=1219071
>
> I missed to make clear that I am especially unsure how docs.kde.org would deal
> with the change in the docs location. Do you know how docs.kde.org collects
> the manuals? And how that would need adaption on their side?
>
>> Then had to tell the install
>> instruction for the docs to put them into a kanagram subfolder since
>> they were no longer coming from a kanagram subfolder in sources.
>
> E.g. like this, right?
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/klettres/doc/CMakeLists.txt?r1=1219015&r2=1219005&pathrev=1219015

Yes, exactly, SUBDIR blah needs to be added to the macro is all.

>> The
>> moving from top level to under the application can be done with
>> svn2git rules though (and needs to be done for older branches/tags
>> anyway), so I suggest we leave them in place in svn and move them as
>> part of the migration to git.  I'll try to spend a bit of time this
>> weekend remembering how that is done and doing the same for the
>> kdesdk/doc folder in the rules.
>
> Thanks. Whatever you think is better we should do, for me you are the expert
> here :)
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich

np, I'm no expert, just have a bit of experience from the other conversions.

Jeremy