On November 29, 2009 16:15:23 Eike Hein wrote: > On 11/30/2009 01:06 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > you increase the barrier for "involuntary early adopters". today i do > > "svn up extragear" and get the newest thing with all the rest. when more > > projects start to break out before we have a working submodule > > architecture to "keep everything together", it will start being a real > > pita at some point. effectively, you lose visibility as part of kde. > > In my experience, the vast majority of people who use Konver- > sation from the SCM have a checkout of the individual sub-di- > rectory. In fact, we regularly get comments along the lines > of "wow, cool that I don't have to co -n the module super- > structure first" on IRC. Likewise, distributions that offer > live packages that fetch Konversation's sources from the SCM, > like Gentoo, do this on a per-app basis, and are prepared > to handle git repositories already. > > Nonetheless, your point that we'd inconvenience people who > currently get their Konversation by way of a single check- > out of the entirety of Extragear is a salient one and some- > thing to think about. I guess it's a whole other debate how > module-y Extragear really is in practice. Do people really > think in terms of "I'll get myself the extragear-network > set installed now", or is it just a way to logically orga- > nize the folder structure in SVN, an issue that goes away > with git? >
good question. I'd be interested to see some actual numbers on how many people check out whole modules vs. individual projects. me, I have a mixture.. a bunch of kde- foo modules, extragear-network (although I think I only grabbed that to get kopete), and a couple of plugins folders. ...huh, I guess I do tend to check out whole modules then. I don't mind the disk space, and it's nice to get 'surprise' programs installed :) although these days I never really see a list of what I've got. kickoff and krunner are good for when you're trying to reach a program you need for a certain task; they're not optimized for just idly browsing through available applications. -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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