[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] RFC: Use spice protocol as a submodule

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, one scenario where it's easier to go wrong than before
> is when distro patches have to be added to the protocol headers (for
> example enum values which are used in messages sent over the wire). This
> happens when distros decide to backport useful features. Before,
> all that was needed was patching one place (spice-protocol), now the header
> needs to be patches N times, and it's not even a straight cherry-pick from
> git, so I can imagine things going wrong there.

If the project you build includes the protocol feature you wanted,
then the result is correct. Before that, you had to recompile all the
projects depending on spice-protocol, to make you sure didn't break
any.

-- 
Marc-André Lureau