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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, outside of the bug with tortoise, the layout seems to be working pretty good for me ...  this would have never worked right with SVN.

If we need to revisit it sometime, I don't feel particularly worried about it. Refactoring build scripts is pretty easy. :D

G


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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Allison [mailto:mangobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:17 AM
To: Garrett Serack
Cc: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Hey... this bzr bug irritates me... go click the "this bug affects you"

I did wonder about the layout after I first checked out.  Reminded me of when we tried to use git submodules at work - an experiment which failed quite badly and put me off the idea until someone can convince me otherwise.  FWIW, we're trialling a different layout for another multi-repository project - I can't remember the approach exactly, since I'm not currently assigned to said project, but it's something along the lines of:

/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/repositories/main.git/

^ Working copy of the "core" repository, containing common code, along with scripts for preparing the host for build (quite a specialised process in this case) and "for-each" scripts to ease management of submodules

/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/repositories/subprojA.git/
/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/repositories/subprojB.git/
/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/repositories/subprojC.git/

^ Working copies of related projects, as checked out either by hand, or by scripts within main.  Checked out side-by-side with the working copy of main, not as subdirectories of it.

/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/build/.../modules/A/
/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/build/.../modules/B/
/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/build/.../modules/C/
/usr/src/bigfreakinproject/build/target/bigfreakinproject-ABC.tar.gz

^ Build-preparation script inside main copies/updates necessary infrastructure on the host, being careful not to stray outside /usr/src/bigfreakinproject, with the end result that one can essentially cd into /usr/src/bigfreakinproject and run "make".  No generated files ever end up in the /u/s/b/repositories tree, just version-controlled stuff.

I suppose time will tell whether or not we run into large enough problems to make it worth rethinking coapp's source layout, but it does make me a bit nervous.