[Owncloud] Removal of 3rd party libraries from the main repo

Robin Appelman icewind at owncloud.com
Thu Feb 16 09:23:25 UTC 2012


On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:10:59 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi Robin,
> 
> 
> yes. I see what you mean. We should definitely avoid to make the life of the
> developers more difficult than needed. Perhaps using a git submodule is the
> solution?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Frank
> 
> On 16.02.2012, at 09:56, Robin Appelman wrote:
> > Recently the 3rd party libraries were removed from the main ownCloud
> > repository, I don't think this is a good idea, while I see the need to
> > have
> > the 3rd party stuff seperated for some people it only makes it more
> > complicated for the vast majority of people.
> > 
> > It gives people 2 repositories they need to update and not all versions of
> > 3rd party libraries may be compatible with all version of ownCloud.
> > 
> > I suggest reverting this change and instead offer a stripped version of
> > releases.
> > 
> > - Robin Appelman

> Frank Karlitschek
> karlitschek at kde.org

I'll revert the change for now untill we figure out a good way to solve this 
issue.

 - Robin Appelman



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