[PD] svn:externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:44 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> Chris McCormick wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:06:32AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> wrote:
>>> What about the idea of having a separate section like /pure-data/ 
>>> svn-
>>> externals?
>
> hmm, i'm trying (not so) hard to remove the ./abstractions folder in
> favour of a grand unified ./externals folder...

That will take a lot of political organizing, as we saw before.  In  
the mean time, I don't see much harm in having /pure-data/svn-externals

> in some other projects i noticed "packages" which are modules  
> containing
>  both the local code plus dependencies (the latter handled solely via
> svn:externals)

Using svn:externals for dependencies means that using --ignore- 
externals would then break.  Do you have an example of such a project?

I am currently using OpenEmbedded a lot for the Reware ARM disk  
images.  OpenEmbedded tracks hundreds of external projects.  It uses  
git, which has nothing like svn:externals.  Instead, the build  
system, bitbake, which handles downloading the source code to  
package.  If we really want to make a distributed build system, then  
someone should build it from bitbake or some other proven tool, not  
kludge it with svn:externals.

.hc

>> I like that as it would solve my immdiate problem of people  
>> finding out
>> of date s-abstractions in the pd repo and not require me to do  
>> periodic
>> imports. Let's hope people don't get confused between "externals" and
>> "externals".
>>
>
> at least i keep getting confused when talking about them :-)
> that's why i always use svn:externals...
>
>
> fgamdr
> IOhannes
>
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