On Jun 6, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Sean Farley wrote: >> 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)
There have already been many discussions on petsc-dev about how hg subrepos suck and don't satisfy all our needs. > > B) merge buildsystem into petsc-dev and use graft / transplant to > maintain a separate repo Yuck.
