On 9/22/11 1:19 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
ok, we have several arguments for and against but no decision how we
want to move forward. Let us take again a look on it
1. we have a working mechanism to get the externals from somewhere,
check md5 sum, unpack, patch, build
1.1 "somewhere" is configurable during the configure step, initially the
externals are downloaded from http://hg.services.openoffice.org/binaries
2. having the externals in the repository (SVN) won't be a big issue
because in case of a checkout always the tip version is downloaded
2.1 the SCM can be used to track the used version of the externals for a
specific OO version -> simply checkout the version tag and everything is
in place ...
3. in a DSCM it would be a real problem over time because of the
increasing space of all versions
4. we need a replacement http://hg.services.openoffice.org/binaries asap
(who knows how long the server will be available)
5. many developers probably work with a local clone of the repository
using for example git svn or something else -> disadvantage of the
increasing space but probably acceptable if a clean local trunk will be
kept and updated
Proposed way to move forward
1. put the externals under .../trunk/ext_sources
.../trunk/ext_sources
.../trunk/main
.../trunk/extras
2. adapt configure to use this as default, disable the download (maybe
reactivate it later if we move to a DSCM)
3. keep the process with checking the md5 sum as it is (for potential
later use)
Any opinions or suggestions?
i think we still haven't finished on this topic but it is somewhat
important to move forward with our IP clearance and the whole
development work.
So if nobody has real objections i would like to move forward with this
proposal but would also like to change the proposed directory name from
"ext_sources" to "3rdparty".
Keep in mind that we use this directory to keep the current state
working and with our ongoing work we will remove more and more stuff
from there.
The adapted bootstrap mechanism will download the libraries from this
new place.
Juergen
