Do you want to have the repo name as 'buildsystem' or 'buildsystem-dev'? note: reclones shouldn't be need for such renames [or url changes] - but one is free to do that if they want to..
Satish On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Barry Smith wrote: > > I am not advocating fixing all capitalizations at this time, just > BuildSystems. > > Plus we should tell everyone to completely reclone anyways. > > Keeping the in consist BuildSystem just to prevent a small number of > temporary hiccups is not a good idea. We're writing PETSc not lapack. > > > > Barry > > On Nov 16, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Barry Smith wrote: > > > >> > >> On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm in the process of migrating repos from petsc.cs.iit.edu to > >>> bitbucket.org, and have to resolve a few organization issues. > >>> > >>> Restrictions. > >>> - all repos should be lowercase > >>> - no subdir organization possible [like > >>> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/] > >>> > >>> 1. Since we are forced to change reponame from 'BuildSystem' to > >>> 'buildsystem' - I'd like to take this opportunity to change it to > >>> 'buildsystem-dev' to be consistent with petsc-dev. i.e instructions > >>> will be: > >>> > >>> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev > >>> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-dev > >>> petsc-dev/config/BuildSystem > >>> > >>> or > >>> > >>> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-release > >>> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-release > >>> petsc-release/config/BuildSystem > >>> > >>> and current clones would need updates to .hg/hgrc only. > >>> > >>> one alternative was to change the path in source to > >>> petsc-dev/config/buildsystem but it will cause some breakage and other > >>> inconsistencies in source file naming scheming - so I'm against that > >> > >> What breakage. I really don't like having caps in one place and small > >> letters in another. Horrible inconsistency > > > > I guess one can anticipate all issues and make configure deal with > > them. [with autofix - or with an error message]. The couple of > > issues I was thinking off: > > > > - different organization between petsc-release and buildsystem confusing > > users. > > - configure might automatically create a new 'buildsystem' clone - when > > the user might still have BuildSystem - and attempt to make changes there. > > > > - bisection might need manual tweaking if if needs to go back and > > forth over this changepoint [from BuildSystem to buildsystem] > > > > Also we won't have consistant naming of 'reop' to 'file' anyway. So I > > see not much motivation to preserve the 'lowercase' part of the > > attribute. > > > > i.e buildsystem-dev -> buildsystem > > buildsystem-release -> buildsystem > > > > Also with this rename - lot of sourcefiles/dirs have to be renamed > > [for a consistant lowercase naming scheme] - loosing annotations in > > mercurial history [perhaps mercurial should handle this automatically > > - but I haven't checked it in depth]. > > > > Satish > > > > > > > >> > >> Barry > >> > >>> > >>> another alternative is to use 'petsc', 'buildsystem', 'petsc-release', > >>> 'buildsystem-release' [but we have too much baggage referring to > >>> petsc-dev, with a mailing list etc reusing this name] > >>> > >>> 2. I plan to reorganize external package repos [that we might have > >>> patches for] with a pkg prefix. > >>> > >>> i.e > >>> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/metis-5.0.2 > >>> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/parmetis-4.0.2 > >>> > >>> to: > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis-5.0.2 > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis-4.0.2 > >>> > >>> etc.. > >>> > >>> 3. Are AMS, ctetgen, win32fe special packages and be listed at toplevel? > >>> currently ctetgen is listed under 'externalpackages'. Should it be at > >>> toplevel? > >>> > >>> i.e > >>> > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/win32fe-dev > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ams-dev > >>> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ctetgen-dev > >>> > >>> Any thoughts? > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> Satish > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > >
