+1 Nuttx and apps should stay separate
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:19 PM Sebastien Lorquet <sebast...@lorquet.fr> wrote: > hello, > > I am not favorable personally with submodules. They are a pain to keep > in sync across multiple remotes and branches. > > This was used in the past in NuttX, and it was aborted. > > Sebastien > > On 12/13/19 3:28 AM, Anthony Merlino wrote: > > I think submodules are a good way to go. That would leave us with 3 repos > > as the core Apache NuttX. One for 'nuttx' which, is Greg suggests, should > > always be exclusively the OS. One for 'apps'. And one for "linking" them > > together, and for providing other NuttX infrastructure that may not be > > appropriate in the core OS repo. > > > > [image: photo] > > *Anthony Merlino* > > CTO & Co-founder, Verge Aero > > (609)-319-1399 > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 8:17 PM David Sidrane <david.sidr...@nscdg.com> > > wrote: > > > >> How about sub modules? We atomically tag across both to keep the > project in > >> proper synchronization. > >> > >> David > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Nathan Hartman [mailto:hartman.nat...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 10:55 AM > >> To: dev@nuttx.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: Project Emails > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:36 PM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> A NuttX release consists of two tarballs nuttx/ and apps/. nuttx/ is > the > >>> operating system proper; apps/ is a collection of applications that may > >>> or maynot be used with the operating system proper. These applications > >>> including some key things and I think most people want to incorporate > >>> some subset of applications into their project. > >>> > >>> But since the applications are NOT part of the operating system they do > >>> need to remain separate. I would argue against trying to merge > >>> application code into the operating system. So I think we have to > >>> consider these two separate releases. We historically release them > >>> together as a matched pair so that the use can be user that they > >>> interoperate properly. > >> +1 : I agree that nuttx and apps should stay separate. > >> > >> That begs the question, are we going to have two separate Git > >> repositories? Because Git lacks support for multiple projects in one > >> repository. (There's nothing in Git that prevents you from trying, but > >> Git does not have the features that make the "monorepo"/"megarepo" > >> pattern work; e.g., it does not have sparse/partial working copies or > >> clones. Trying to combine nuttx and apps into one repository would > >> force everyone to clone a lot of content they may not need/want and > >> which may complicate building the RTOS with only their custom > >> applications.) > >> > >> Nathan > >> >
