Re: [Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-02 Thread Chris Morley
From: Sebastian Kuzminsky >I have experience with git submodules, and I am very much not a fan. >submodules are occasionally useful, but it's a suboptimal solution. My >main objection is that they introduce additional complexity into the >project's revision

Re: [Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-02 Thread Kurt Jacobson
> > On 2 July 2018 at 16:17, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > > > But there are other, maybe better, options.. since QtVCP is basically a > > python package already, it would be straight forward to make it a proper > > package and put it on PyPi. The advantage of that is that it could be > > installed with

Re: [Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-02 Thread andy pugh
On 2 July 2018 at 16:17, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > But there are other, maybe better, options.. since QtVCP is basically a > python package already, it would be straight forward to make it a proper > package and put it on PyPi. The advantage of that is that it could be > installed with pip install

Re: [Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-02 Thread Kurt Jacobson
Chris, I am a very strong proponent of having the UIs live in separate repositories. It would keep the LCNC tree cleaner, keep dependencies to a minimum, make maintenance and development of the UIs more straight froward and would also allow the UI to have its own issue tracker, which I think would

Re: [Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 July 2018 01:58:27 Chris Morley wrote: > In the fairly near future I intend to add Qtvcp/Qtscreen to linuxcnc. > > This is a python/Qt based virtual control panel similar to gladevcp. > > > I am wondering if keeping the project separate from linuxcnc by using > a subtree or sub

[Emc-developers] git subtree/submodule useful for Qtvcp/Qtscreen?

2018-07-01 Thread Chris Morley
In the fairly near future I intend to add Qtvcp/Qtscreen to linuxcnc. This is a python/Qt based virtual control panel similar to gladevcp. I am wondering if keeping the project separate from linuxcnc by using a subtree or sub module is a good idea. I ask this question without knowing very