Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: >> git submodule is similar, but it would be crazy to add every optional >> external dependency as a submodule to petsc.git. > > [I was thinking in terms of collabortive development petsc+moab - and > not 'package-management' for users.] > > So currently its 2 repos - in the future it could be more.
There are lots of external repositories. I don't see anything special about MOAB. It's never going to be a required dependency. > with submodule 'git commit' would probably automatically track the > hashes between repos. But with configure:giturl - this has to be > manually added to moab.py. Not a big deal.. > > [we would also have to fixup configure:giturl to do 'git fetch; git > checkout commit-id' for each configure run..] Right, but at least it's clear what is needed.
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