[Solar-talk] Change to Solar system assumptions?

[Paul M Jones]

On May 17, 2008, at 17:45 , Antti Holvikari wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Paul M Jones <pmjones at paul-m-jones.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> I'd like to hear any and all criticism of this proposed change to  
>> the Solar
>> assumptions.  I think we're all doing our projects this way, but I  
>> want to
>> make sure I'm not missing anything.
>
> I was going to say yes, but then I realized I never work like this.
> What I do instead is add Solar as a svn:externals property or as a git
> submodule. And as I've understood, everybody else seems to do this as
> well :-).
>
> Are you suggesting that you'd download this "template" project
> including all Solar files and then you'd commit these files to your
> source control system along with other project files?

Yes, but read on for an extension to this idea.


> I think svn:externals and git submodules are definitely the way to go.

I thought of this already, but didn't outline it.  ;-)

There could be 2 "package deals" for the downloadable system.  For the  
regular new user, the template-project I described earlier would be  
reasonable.

For more source-conscious users, we can have a second one called "svn- 
project" that can have all the SVN pieces in place, pointing to  
anonymous checkouts of Solar with svn:externals, and the proper  
symlinks between source and include.

Perhaps in the future we can have a "git-project" one that has the GIT  
pieces in place, and so on.

Would that be helpful?


-- pmj