2008/9/27 Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Regarding Symbiosis:
> http://git.dvide.com/pub/symbiosis > http://git.dvide.com/pub/symbiosis/tree/README Some clarification: Symbiosis is a standalone tool that, once compiled, does not require ocaml nor ocamlbuild to be installed at all. (Because ocambuild and the symbiosis plugin are compiled together to a new executable). Thus Symbiosis can be distributed as a binary package for driving all kinds of high-level builds. This means developers can download a prebuilt Symbiosis executable and a standard configuration file to their local machine from a project file server and basically have a build going by typing: symbiosis "myproject" This assumes available components are listed in proxy files in a dedicated repository that the config files can identify. I hope to put up an example project eventually, but at least you have the source code now. Relation to git submodule: Lars Hjemli who has been working on git submodules pointed out some similarity. This is correct. To some extend symbiosis tries to solve the submodule problem. At the time didn't know git submodules (but sort of knew about svn externals). But I do not want a system that is tied into a specific source control tool, and nothing prevents symbiosis from compiling projects that use git submodules or equivalent where this is the preferred solution for some component integration. Git submodule does not, for good reasons, in itself handle the problem of how to compile a submodule. Symbiosis does this. Symbiosis does not (yet) make it easy to snapshot a specific revision without some manual work (updating checkout revision id in proxies). Git submodules does. Eventually I hope to generate a build report where the exact checkout revision of each component is listed along with the compile flags that went in - symbiosis should then be able to rebuild a project given such a report. So if such build reports are checked into source control, it should be easier to rebuild past versions of projects. Mikkel
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