sub-module support

[John D. Mitchell]

On 10/7/07, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) <sarvi at cisco.com> wrote:
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> The code base will be large with many components, potentially in the
> lower 100s.

Cool.

> A subset of these components would then need to be combined together to
> build specific higher level components or products. These higher level
> components or products might use specific versions of these
> sub-components.

Indeed.

> So, it might not make sense to have all of them as one respository. And
> having them all as separate repositories, would mean we need to manage
> specific sets/collections of these repositories, be able to version that
> set/collection, and so on.

You'll have to manage the sets/collections of the modules regardless
of what approach you take.  So, I'm still unclear on exactly what
feature the submodules support buys you.

Thanks,
John