Re: GOP-PROP 11: git repositories

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 19:14:57 schrieb Phil Holmes:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Percival [mailto:address@hidden
> > The only kind of person who's interested in those other
> > repositories will have their own favorite directory layout
> > anyway (like me; all my source repositories go under
> > $HOME/src/) so they'd ignore any recommendation anyway.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to standardise them so that the doc and website
> builds can copy them using standard scripts?

No, the doc and website build MUST NOT depend on anything that is not part of 
the lilypond git repo.
Anything else does not simplify things, but rather complicates the build by 
one more dependency (which we then also have to check for in the ./configure 
script, properly document in the instructions, and most importantly also have 
to regularly update/fetch to keep the main build working)...

The idea here is not to split up the current codebase to multiple 
repositories. Rather, we have some branches in our git repository, which do 
not have anything to do with the lilypond codebase. The proposal is to move 
that code out of the lilypond git repository and into their own. Lilypond will 
not depend on those other repositories at all.

cheers,
Reinhold
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