[Spice-devel] repository reorg

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>> We can't rely on distributions packaging, we want our tarballs to be easy
>> to use.
>> spice-protocol as is is small, and contains what is required by drivers,
>> agent,
>> activeX and xpi. So no reason to make it larger. Common will contain what
>> is required
>> by the client and server.
>
> Can also be done with some configure magic.  When detecting a non-supported
> platform or missing build dependencies just skip the build of server, client
> or both.  Only protcol would be installed unconditionally.
>
> I think separate repos are better though, it makes you think harder when
> designing the interfaces between the modules.

Well, this is just to keep in mind, not really relevant if it's in
repo X or repo Y imho.

For example, pulseaudio has: protocol, client, server, etc. all in the
same repository. It doesn't mean people are less carefull about API
and protocol compatibility.

regards

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Marc-André Lureau