From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:30:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4373AE02.9050909@op5.se> References: <7vmzkc2a3e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20051110185423.GA7212@blackbean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Nov 10 21:32:58 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaJ4g-0001DV-Gd for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:31:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932070AbVKJUbD (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:31:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932073AbVKJUbC (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:31:02 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:60576 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932070AbVKJUbA (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:31:00 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2741D6BCFF for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:30:59 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc3 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051110185423.GA7212@blackbean.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jim Radford wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:14:29AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I think archimport part needs to be split out just like its >> svn/cvs cousins, > > > I don't agree. The chance of running git-archimport and not having > arch installed is significantly less likely than the chance of not > noticing that the git-archimport program exists because it was moved > into a separate package that you didn't know you needed to install in > the first place. > How is this different for when svnimport and cvsimport was moved out? I don't think anyone expected people to run those commands by accident without noticing that they fail without the svn || cvs installed underneath. > The main reason I see for splitting cvs and email import out is the > non-standard dependencies, cvsps and perl(Email::Valid). Define "non-standard". String::ShellQuote isn't installed by default on Fedora Core 3 but is required by git-archimport. > While for > svn import it's to keep from requiring subversion-perl of everone who > installs git-core. This dependency is added automatically, so you > cannot easily just ignore it like you can in the arch/tla case. > It's fairly simple to provide a custom find-requires script. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231