Re: [lmi] [PATCH] Add script allowing to install any wxWidgets version from Git

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:31:31 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

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GC> If that's more or less valid, then the crucial insight is that a
GC> basic-repository with submodules isn't just a basic-repository:
GC> it's a super-repository, which IS-A basic-repository that HAS-A
GC> collection of basic-repositories.

 Yes, exactly. And maybe it can be helpful to add that a bare repository is
a "pure" repository and doesn't HAVE-ANY other repositories (but it has
links to them (well, now I'm not sure if it was really helpful to add this
(and I'd better stop here))).

GC> Thus, setting up distinct *.git bare repositories...
GC> 
GC> >  And if you set up things like this, i.e. using bare repositories (which
GC> > are, by convention, named with a .git suffix, i.e. you'd have wx.git,
GC> > zlib.git, png.git, ...), then it would be simple enough to use URLs based
GC> > on the main repository URL for submodules using relative paths as I wrote,
GC> > i.e. use $wx_git_url/../$submodule.git for them.
GC> 
GC> ...actually parallels the underlying structure, and amounts to
GC> mirroring exactly what we need to mirror: it's "as simple as
GC> possible, but not simpler".
GC> 
GC> > Should we do it like this?
GC> 
GC> If I've understood this correctly, then yes, please.

 I'll do it (simple) and test it (slightly more time-consuming) a.s.a.p.
VZ