On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Le 31/08/2017 à 23:33, Gilles a écrit :
>
> > it's a pity we cannot meet in person to sort all those issues
>
> Hum, maybe with a few beers you'll be easier to convince ;)
>
>
> > I'm not against you modularizing CM, I'm against me doing it
> > just because you "think" it's a better approach to the
> > (management) problems which I've been describing for at least
> > two years (and some more).
> I understand your point of view, you don't want to spent a lot of time
> modularizing CM, dealing with parts of the code you are not comfortable
> with and delaying the release of code you really care about. That's fair
> and I agree this shouldn't be forced upon you.
>
> The good news is you don't actually have to refactor *all* of CM as a
> multi-module project right now. Start with a mostly empty branch
> containing just a couple of modules you like and release them. And you
> progressively bring more modules after each release from the old CM
> branch. That's equivalent to the creation of multiple components (you
> cherry-pick the code that you want, and release it when ready), and you
> keep the lightweight management of a single component.
>

That sounds like a nice iterative approach.

Gary


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> Emmanuel Bourg
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