#9433: Put more files under revision control.
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Reporter: jhpalmieri | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: distribution | Keywords:
Author: John Palmieri | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Leif Leonhardy, Volker Braun | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):
Replying to [comment:136 jdemeyer]:
> Why not simply avoid `hg clone` in `sage-make_devel_packages`? If the
other spkgs can be made without using `hg clone`, surely the same should
work for the `sage_root` spkg?
It certainly could be done, but it makes the repo harder to maintain.
Suppose you want to add a new file to the repo. If you clone, you just
run "hg add" (or apply a patch which accomplishes this) and you're done.
If you manually copy everything over, as is done for the other repos, then
you also have to modify sage-make_devel_packages, maybe root-spkg-install,
maybe sage-sdist. This is especially true for the root repo, where files
need to be dealt with individually: it's not like the Sage repo where
except for a handful of files, you just copy over an entire directory
(devel/sage/sage/), and it's not like the scripts repo where except for a
handful of files, you just copy over everything with a certain name
("sage-*").
Maybe instead it could run "hg manifest" and then manually copy over the
listed files. But this seems really awkward when "hg clone" does exactly
what is required.
> Version 1.7.3 of Mercurial was merged in sage-4.6.2.alpha2, ticket
#10594. It can still be unmerged if you think that's a good thing to do.
Then we would fall back to Mercurial 1.6.4.
I'm really not sure about this. Perhaps it should be discussed on #10594.
The lack of backwards compatibility seems problematic to me. I can try to
post something there later today.
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