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

[Evert Pot]

On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Jakob Sack wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps you should consider using Composer for (some) this:

http://packagist.org/about-composer
http://nelm.io/blog/2011/12/composer-part-1-what-why/

It works quite nicely

Evert