Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:32 -0500, Brad Taylor wrote: > >> In addition to this, I'd like to bring up the use of svn:externals in >> GNOME. I know that many modules (mine included) make use of it to >> include live versions of external code for bundling purposes. >> >> Is there a migration plan for these settings? Several scenarios will >> likely crop up: including another git module (could probably use Git >> submodules), and including an external SVN module (?). > > We don't have a real plan for svn:externals yet, unfortunately. > > The to-do list has items to figure out where externals are used and why. > Off the top of my head I can only think of libbackground right now, and > that's definitely a candidate for making it into a real library, or at > least folding it into gnome-desktop.
I think glib and gtk+ still share their build/ directory using svn:externals. behdad > I've never used Git's submodule support, so I have no idea if it would > be a good substitute for svn:externals (but I don't think those are a > good idea in general, anyway) :) > > Do you know which modules use externals, or at least some of them, to > start getting an idea? > > Federico _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
