Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Chris McCormick wrote:
is there any chance to sync the two repositories? (personally i would still suggest an svn:externals link; but let's
keep this for later :-))
sorry for re-starting the flame-war. it was not my intention but couldn't keep my mouth shut.
I really don't want to dictate here, but I think we need to decide on
how we use the SVN. svn:externals create more annoying work in
regards to getting Pd-extended builds out, but that is not the only
use of the SVN. I can accept more annoying work, but there needs to
be a good reason.My question remains, what is the problem we are trying to solve using
svn:externals? If it is to include code that gets built with Pd- extended, then svn:externals doesn't work well for that, just
importing releases works much better.
this is the main point where i disagree. most Pd-libraries seem to have stopped doing a regular release-cycle. for those included in Pd-extended, this is most likely due to their inclusion in Pd-extended. other libraries do not have a release cycle too, esp. if they are under some kind of public avaible version control system. the reason remains unknown, but i guess for most of these their upstream author consider release cycles for a "minor" library to much of a hazzle.
i totally understand e.g. chris, if he doesn't want to re-import a new version of s-abstractions just because he has added 2 objects. (this is jut my interpretation)
but nevertheless: s-abstractions are in our svn, chris pointed me to s-totalrecall.pd which i thought (rightfully) to be part of s-abstractions (without having ever had a look at this library), i checked whether this lib is in my checkout of the repo (which it is) and i couldn't find the very object. assuming that chris hadn't made fun of me, i checked the logfiles of s-abstractions and noted that there was only a initial submit. i decided to search for the library on other places (using google) and eventually found the upstream repository.
i think such "workflow" does more harm than not.
I think it's time to have a IRC meeting about this. How about
Thursday? I am trying to be in #dataflow as much as possible these
days, if anyone wants to have an impromptu discussion.
i'm at piksel right now, so i will not be able to attend any meeting in this week,
mfga.r IOhannes