From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 14:54:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536a8f6cd81e9_76ff7a52ec60@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmiha51dd99.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Greg Troxel wrote:
> In a packaging system, dependencies are much more troublesome.
> Dependencies have to be declared, and the build limited to use only
> those declared dependencies, in order to get repeatable builds and
> binary packages that can be used on other systems. Dependencies that
> really are required are fine. But optional dependencies are a
> problem, because e.g. one doesn't want to require the presence of qt
> to build something (that isn't already enormous). So if git needs
> mercurial and subversion installed, plus perhaps 5 other things for
> less popular remote helpers, that starts to be a real burden.
It doesn't *need* them to build. The Mercurial/Bazaar dependencies are
optional, both at build-time and at run-time. Most distributions would
want to test the functionality they are distributing, and for testing
they do need these dependencies.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 22:38 What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29) Junio C Hamano
2014-05-05 18:45 ` John Keeping
2014-05-05 19:08 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05 19:55 ` John Keeping
2014-05-05 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05 21:43 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-06 17:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 18:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-05 23:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 0:20 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-06 0:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-06 8:07 ` John Keeping
2014-05-06 8:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-06 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 19:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 11:44 ` Greg Troxel
2014-05-07 19:54 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-07 23:38 ` Greg Troxel
2014-05-08 0:18 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-08 7:29 ` Chris Packham
2014-05-08 7:56 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:40 ` David Lang
2014-05-09 0:58 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-09 0:58 ` Submodule improvements (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)) Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-08 18:31 ` What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29) Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 0:17 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 8:05 ` John Keeping
2014-05-07 9:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 18:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 19:28 ` John Keeping
2014-05-07 19:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 20:26 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-07 20:44 ` John Keeping
2014-05-07 21:38 ` Felipe Contreras
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