On Saturday 09 February 2013, Martin Sandsmark wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > IMO this is very much not a black-and-white situation. > > It is not "leave everything in one huge blob as it is now" vs. "put every > > tiny library in its separate repository", there are steps in between. > > Well, if you need to use git submodules anyways to automatically check out > all modules, why does the number of repositories matter?
Our git-documentation is still... underwhelming at best. I won't write it, I am anything but a git expert, and I have enough other things to do. > > I for one would prefer if we stay with a moderate number of repositories. > > khtml e.g. is big, this should be separate (will it actually still exist > > ?). I would guess the "solutions" each deserve a separate repository. > > What do you consider big? KHTML is "only" 13MB, and Solid is 2.2MB, is that > also big? I didn't check the sizes. khtml takes long to build, so I'd assume it's one of the bigger ones. ... > > convenience, to build them all in one go. > > If you simply run cmake there, nothing is built, you have to explicitely > > enable the libs you want to build, and there are not dependencies between > > them, so this is simple and straightforward. > > Those together are still small, fast to download, and easy to package > > separately. > > Is there any reason this superbuild directory could not be in a "top-level" > repository, with the other modules as git sub-modules? No, it just needs to be done. And basically it does the same as kdesrc-build, so it's maybe not necessary. This is now just for me to make it easy to build the separated libs in kdelibs separately. > > I don't see an advantage in splitting such things into separate > > repositories. > > Well, it would be more consistent, instead of having some modules as > separate directories and some bundled together. > > It also makes the repositories you need to check out to fix something > smaller. Just checking out a 5MB repository can be a royal PITA in some > situations, fast and stable internet access isn't available everywhere. Seriously, is this really any issue ? How often do you checkout from scratch, and that in places where you have slow internet ? Or is this just a git limitation, that we can't update just in subdirs ? Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
