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

[Jakob Sack]

Hi,

I suggest the following solution:
- create a repository for 3dparty resources, called "owncloud-3dparty"
- add the 3dparty-folder to the load path:
   a) If defined in config.php then use this path
   b) look for 3dparty in base directory
   c) look for "owncloud-3dparty" in parent directory
   d) die if the 3dparty-folder is not found

I think that this is a good approach because:
1) ownCloud and 3dparty are not in one repository
2) ownCloud will run after "git clone owncloud && git clone 
owncloud-3rdparty"
3) ownCloud runs if you copy/symlink the 3dparty folder to the base 
path
4) distributions can put the 3dparty stuff everywhere and adapt the 
default config.php to the changes

The only disadvantage I can see right now is that the 3dparty 
repository still will be a big mess with hundreds of licenses.

What do you think?
Regards,

Jakob

Am 16.02.2012 10:53, schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
> On 16.02.2012, at 10:36, Klaas Freitag wrote:
>
>> On 16.02.2012 10:31, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>>
>>> Next time more feedback to the proposed change on the mailinglist 
>>> is appreciated ;-)
>> Point taken, sorry.
>
>
> :-)
>
>
>> Although, I tink I somewhere replied with my core opinion here which 
>> is: "3rdparty should go away." ;-)
>
> Thats the best approach.
> But this would be even more difficult for developers. The idea of the
> 3rdparty repo was to have a place where all the right versions of the
> external libs are collected. The user just has to copy it into
> 3rdparty and it works.
>
> All a developer has to do is to clone the 3rdparty repo as git
> submodule into the 3rdparty folder and it should work as before.
>
> Maintaining everything in one big repository with incompatible
> licenses is not a solution in the long run IMHO.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> Frank Karlitschek
> karlitschek at kde.org
>
>
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