git review

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:52:03PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
>> > Like described in link above, you have three options here:
>> > pypi-system-wide, pypi-user-local and distro package.
>> > No other options please.
>>
>> Most people wont even know what pypi-system-wide is and dont want to know. And
>> they shouldnt need to.
>>
>> We will loose possible contributors that way. Not an option. Patch submittal
>> has to work hasslefree and out of the box. This is really critical: there has
>> to be no extra step at all for patch submittal otherwise we failed.
>
> Thinking a bit about this, another possibility would be to do with git-review
> as we do with other external stuff:
> Downloading and installing a local copy in "./download". That would ensure it
> to be universally available and be up to date.

I know that michael disagree with me on that, but I prefer dev-tools
to be in ...  dev-tools.git
one can install it as he see fit. and you get the version you
want/need regardless where you are in the source tree...

Norbert