[Solar-talk] Change to Solar system assumptions?

[Antti Holvikari]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Paul M Jones <pmjones at paul-m-jones.com> wrote:
> On May 17, 2008, at 17:45 , Antti Holvikari wrote:
>
>> 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?

Absolutely! Was going to suggest something along those lines myself.

I will add an unofficial Git project-template to my website for people
to use. Solar, and maybe Lux too, as a submodule :-).

Btw, if svn:externals points to itself, what happens? Infinite loop,
world explodes?

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Antti Holvikari <http://anttih.com>