Re: Open source Ada OS?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On Jan 27, 12:02 am, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> if you treat those as *one* project, then you lose the ability
> to have separate releases for different part of the project.

Huh? Sorry, but this is nonsense. Nobody forces you to compress the
whole repository as a method for making a "release". If this feature
is supported by VCS, it is for convenience, but certainly not
obligatory.

What I do in such a case is a separate release script that builds the
deliverable packages from what is available in the repository. Many
such scripts can exist together without any problem to address the
case you describe (hint: these scripts can and should be versioned
together with everything else), and as well the repository can contain
stuff that is not supposed to be released at all.
Did I mention that such a script can also make some last-second
automated modifications to the package, like generating docs or
sticking appropriate license to all source files for multi-licensed
projects?

In general, the concept of making a "release" by just compressing the
whole repository is simplified to the point of being useless. This
seems to be a common practice in many open-source projects, but I'm
surprised by that.

> Merging, however is never a solution.

I agree. I use it for the fast-forward type of merging, where files
are not modified and only the logical progress is made, but I don't
trust the "automated-editing" type of merge. The overhead of further
verification is equivalent to manual editing anyway.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com