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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> I am with gitzilla on this one. Let the projects have their own
> bootstraping mechanisms, using make, ant or whatever catches their
> fancy. One of the great things about git is that it doesn't assume
> that it's being used by all the projects in the world -- thanks to
> Linus' disregard for arbitrary metadata and to your git-cherry
> implementation, it's all about the content -- and so it interoperates
> great with Arch, SVN, CVS, etc.

I had the exactly the same reaction when I saw the project
bundling facility of Arch (tla 1.0 -- I do not know what the
newer versions use).  It probably was a great way to tie two or
more Arch projects together, but it would quickly become less
useful once the component project is outside Arch space and the
toplevel project would end up with doing some Makefile targets
like ALASCM described.

I hope this settles this issue and nobody would bring up "Wee
want subprojects" ever again ;-).