On 24 Mar 2014, at 21:10, Frank Loeffler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:05:25PM -0700, Roland Haas wrote: >> The ExternalLibraries are ET not Cactus, right? We already agreed that >> the ET will transition to git (and in the process apparently also >> transition Cactus* to git). So we already require git to be present I >> think. > > They are hosted by Cactus, but are obviously not requiring LGPL. > We do not require git to be present where you compile. You require it > only where you check things out. You then use rsync/simfactory to copy > your tree wherever you want it. > >> I am also not aware of a machine that is in eg simfactory's mdb that >> does not contain (some) version of git. > > You would be surprised. :) But then, maybe not. > > We agreed to download the tarball, only if needed, at runtime. This > should work reasonably well using either wget or curl on essentially all > systems.
I don't remember an agreement on this; while it is my preferred solution (along with having the possibility of pre-caching the tarballs with a single command), I don't think we had agreement from everyone on this. -- Ian Hinder http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder
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