sub-module support

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 2007.10.07 17:54, John D. Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) <sarvi at cisco.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.

The same thing build-configs provided for gnu Arch.
http://www.gnuarch.org/gnuarchwiki/Using_build-configs

I'm not clear why that's not clear to you.

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Mark A. Flacy