Le 30 août 2011 à 07:59, Jordan K. Hubbard a écrit :


On Aug 29, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Daniel A. Steffen wrote:

nice! not sure we want to import all those libraries into the macosforge repo though, can we provide instructions/scripts to download them automatically from a canonical location ? (similarly to the macosx build dependencies on Libc/xnu sources)

Would some clever svn:external mechanism that allows you to refer to repositories from other repositories help in this case?  Then we'd just need to create the reference under the compat/ directory and folks who checkout the whole tree would get all the bits.  Is there a problem with that approach I'm missing?


AFAIK, it does not provide a way to "automatically" checkout required library conditionally.
It may not be desirable to checkout/download all compat libraries when building on OS X for instance, as it may not be desirable to checkout lic/xnu dependencies when building on Linux.

-- Jean-Daniel