On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> That's why I asked about a current list to see exactly what need isn't
> met.
Check the old email. Satish and Matt had specific concerns.
> So far, I only have that older mercurial clients wouldn't be able
> to push (but pulling should work fine); so all devs would need a
> recent mercurial client.
As I mentioned in my email to Jed. There needs to be a way to enforce the
use of a recent mercurial client.
>
>>> B) merge buildsystem into petsc-dev and use graft / transplant to
>>> maintain a separate repo
>>
>> Yuck.
>
> Yuck? Everyone would win: Matt would have his separate repo and there
> would be no more unsynchronized changesets.
It sounds hacky. If it is not hacky and Matt is fine with this then we
could go that route.
Barry
