[Users] Meeting Minutes

[Frank Loeffler]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:05:25PM -0700, Roland Haas wrote:
> The ExternalLibraries are ET not Cactus, right? We already agreed that
> the ET will transition to git (and in the process apparently also
> transition Cactus* to git). So we already require git to be present I
> think.

They are hosted by Cactus, but are obviously not requiring LGPL.
We do not require git to be present where you compile. You require it
only where you check things out. You then use rsync/simfactory to copy
your tree wherever you want it.

> I am also not aware of a machine that is in eg simfactory's mdb that
> does not contain (some) version of git.

You would be surprised. :) But then, maybe not.

We agreed to download the tarball, only if needed, at runtime. This
should work reasonably well using either wget or curl on essentially all
systems. Whether these are then stored verbatim, in svn or git is a
separate issue, and does not matter here I think. We don't have the
machinery in place to do this anyway right now, so I suggest to not mix
this with the general svn->git transition, and leave the
ExternalLibraries where they are, for now - or make sure we get the
scripts in place that would handle the downloading ect. first.

Frank

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