I'm sorry, my last mail should have been sent to the developers list (of course).
On 11/07/2012 12:25 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ralf Hemmecke <hemme...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Maybe I should rather subscribe to the x2go-developer list. Looking at >>>> http://www.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:development:git >>>> tells me about "Checkout all repos:". A bash-script? That looks like >>>> x2go should rather use "git submodules" no? >> >> Hi, >> >> maybe I shouldn't do this before knowing x2go better, but since I was >> somehow shocked by this bash script... >> >> I've actually executed it and found out that I should delete the >> deprecated line *and* the line >> >> x2goagent.git \ >> >> since also that gives a 'permission denied error'. >> >> Furthermore, when I look at http://code.x2go.org/gitweb, I somehow get >> the impression that the list on the webpage is completely outdated. >> >> So, here my suggestion. Use git submodules and tell developers to clone >> the sources like >> >> git clone git://code.x2go.org/x2org.git >> cd x2org >> git submodule init >> git submodule update >> >> Someone from the core developers should (of course create the initial >> x2org.git. >> >> For demonstration purposes you can start with >> >> git clone git://github.com/hemmecke/x2go.git >> >> but some core developer should actually produce a x2go.git like >> >> mkdir x2go >> cd x2go >> git init >> for r in buildscripts.git ,,, ; do \ >> git submodule add git://code.x2go.org/$r; \ >> done >> git commit >> >> with the correct list of (sub-)projects or simply clone my x2go.git and >> add the missing projects via >> >> git submodule add git://code.x2go.org/libjpeg-turbo.git >> >> and then publish that x2go.git repo somewhere. >> >> >> This probably doesn't give you the exactly same setup as you had before, >> since (as you can see from the git://, everyone would only get read >> access to the repository. >> >> But hey, we are dealing with git, nobody actually needs write access to >> anybody elses repository. The X2GO project has just to declare some of >> the many repositories as the OFFICIAL one and one or two people would be >> responsible to push into this OFFICIAL repository. For collaboration >> there is github and all the other free git-repository hosting providers. >> >> But of course, that is all up to the inner core of developers who >> decide. I've just made my suggestion. Feel free to adapt to your actual >> needs. (Since I am too new, I don't yet know them.) > > Implementing what you suggest is very likely to break our build > infrastructure, which automatically builds nightly debian packages for > debian and ubuntu. I'm not saying that it was impossible to do what > you suggest, but we must ensure first that changing the repository > organization does not cause regressions for our users. Huh? I don't understand this. All I suggested was to add a new "super" repository that pulls in the existing ones for a local setup. All your official repositories can stay where they are. You could even leave the bash script in place if you like. I think I forgot to include a link. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules Ralf _______________________________________________ X2Go-Dev mailing list X2Go-Dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
