Hi! > * Commits to "documentation" never had a relation to "reactos" commits, so > nothing is lost if we put that directory into a separate repo > "documentation.git" and remove all traces to it from the history of > "reactos.git". I'd go this way if there are no objections. > Yeah, I see that as a separate "project" (documentation), separated from the ROS source.
> * I don't get the idea of that "rossubsys" directory created in 2014.. > These subsystems are all stubs, never built with modern ReactOS, and no > work has happened since "reviving" them. I would just go and remove them > again. You can always find them in our repository history. > As long as they can be found easily in the history, then ok. Alternatively, as a separate "project" they can be found... (the "reactos" github account can have other repos I suppose?) > * The "wallpapers" directory is a harder candidate. > On the one hand, we don't want to bloat our ReactOS builds by including > wallpapers in every build. Also the number of wallpapers may increase in the > future, which could bloat the "reactos.git" repo even more. > On the other hand, the wallpapers have always accompanied our release > branches, so there is a value of having them tracked next to our code. > Again, same, it's some heavy multimedia thingie. > But then again, how are they picked > up by the build process in the future if we can't check them out into a > subdirectory of "modules"? > The builder(s) can have a "working" directory, in which they check-out the different "projects" they need for the build: reactos source can be DL'ed into "working/reactos.git" ; the wallpapers, rostests etc... can be DL'ed into "working/rostests" and "working/wallpapers", then symlinks (OK on *nix & windows) into the "working/reactos.git/modules" can be created that point to "working/wallpapers" and "working/rostests" , and then we build as usual ? Cheers, Hermès _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
