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

Frank Karlitschek karlitschek at kde.org
Thu Feb 16 09:31:24 UTC 2012


On 16.02.2012, at 10:23, Robin Appelman wrote:

> 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



Fine with me.


Next time more feedback to the proposed change on the mailinglist is appreciated ;-) 



Frank





Frank Karlitschek
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