[Users] Completing GetComponents' transition to GitHub

[Erik Schnetter]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at eseidel.org> wrote:
>
> So I just looked into this, and it seems that GetComponents is not currently
> equipped to symlink an entire git repo. This is a silly oversight on my
> part; I can fix it, but that would require another patch to GetComponents.
> Another possibility would be to create the 'bin' directory and link
> GetComponents into bin. Then users could call './bin/GetComponents' or
> possibly './bin/CRL/GetComponents', the latter would allow for documentation
> to be linked as well.
>
> I suggest to do both, to correct the fact that GetComponents cannot
> link whole repositories, and to create and use a "bin" directory in
> Cactus.
>
> I made the necessary modifications to GetComponents in svn to support this.
> I have attached a modified patch to add the git version of GetComponents,
> which I would like to apply to finally complete the transition.
> GetComponents will now live at https://github.com/gridaphobe/CRL, and I will
> add a LaTeX version of the documentation shortly so that it can be built
> with the rest of the Cactus documentation.
>
> The transition will be a two step process (assuming you are using the
> development version): the next time you update Cactus, you will get the
> updated thornlist and svn-GetComponents. Then when you run GetComponents
> again, it will add the git version, which will be located in
> Cactus/bin/CRL/GetComponents. This seems to be the most stable process to
> me.

Shouldn't the binary live directly in Cactus/bin/GetComponents? The
CRL repository would live in repos, as usual, and the binary itself
would be a symbolic link. We can then do the same with SimFactory.

-erik

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