Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CGRAN down indefinitely, but hopefully not for long (want feedback)

[Bastian Bloessl]

On 10/06/2014 08:21 AM, Martin Braun wrote:
> but I don't really like this except as a temporary/transition solution.
> Assume CGRAN really takes off and grows. Do you really want all OOTs out
> there in a single repo? What exactly is their logical connection, which
> would warrant them all being tied together in a super-repo?
> This would require someone to keep updating the submodules, too, which
> seems unnecessary.


> In the long run, I would assume people want to host their OOTs on github
> (or similar services), and CGRAN would simply be a link to those.
> As I said, during a transition time, we might want something else.
> But submodules are messy, and I suggest not using them for this
> particular application.

Since, git 1.8.2 a git submodule can track a branch [1] (as opposed to 
pointing to a commit). That means that it is not necessary to update the 
submodules in the super-repo. A submodule is very similar to a pybombs 
recipe, a link to a repo and a branch.
Most likely most of the repos (i.e. GNU Radio apps/modules) will be 
hosted at github or similar services. So nothing would change for the 
authors of the modules. (That's at least my understanding of the 
proposed solution)


Best,
Bastian


[1] 
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt#L186