On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Currently the python community module is disabled. The reason being that
> it
> > requires some sources from the geoscript-py git repository. Originally I
> > simply added this as as svn external but unfortunately github svn support
> is
> > shoty at best, and fails often. My next shot at a solution would be to
> > simply use git directly to check out the sources, executed via an ant
> > script. I have used approach on other projects and it works well.
> > The downside then becomes that git would be required on the path to build
> > the module... which probably is not a problem for most developers who are
> > now using git and probably not a problem since most developers don't
> build
> > that community module. But I was wanted to check with folks regardless.
> If
> > people think it will be too much headache I can try for another solution.
>
> I don't see this as a problem as long as the module is a community one,
> it also seems that you're basically the only one working on it at the
> moment
> so no reason to make your life harder.
>
> If/when the module becomes extension or core yeah, in that case we are
> probably going to need some thinking on how to handle the issue for a
> larger
> number of people.
>
> My 2 cents :-)
>

Cool, thanks Andrea. And I agree. I think once/if it moves to extension I
will just grab a copy of the geoscript sources and include it in the module.
However now since the geoscript sources change pretty rapidly it is nice to
keep them as an external.

>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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