> ? Jed and Sean's email bitched about the current system (which is fine to > bitch) but did not have specific suggestions on a new system. ?So how do you > propose to (1) not have the "pull BuildSystem" problem and (2) have bisection > work? > > ? ?Once we know the proposal we can determine the downside to the proposal > and decide whether to change. But without a specific proposal (state it) you > all are just flapping your lips.
There are only two ways that I know of that satisfy both (1) and (2) (tell me if anyone knows of any more): A) make buildsystem a subrepo (svn external for those familiar with svn) B) merge buildsystem into petsc-dev and use graft / transplant to maintain a separate repo
