Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54672 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25716 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2011 08:31:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Aug 2011 08:31:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.26.187 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.187 c2beaomr09.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.187] ([213.123.26.187:28889] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C8/D1-10511-0EDCC4E4 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:31:30 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.4_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2beaomr09.btconnect.com with ESMTP id EAW03790; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:28:53 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4E4CCD44.1000909@lsces.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:28:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/2.0.14-2.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <4E4B7845.8@lsces.co.uk> <4E4BD968.6060706@garfieldtech.com> <4E4CC012.2040304@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A0B0301.4E4CCD45.0043, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2011.8.18.73915:17:7.586, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1200_1299, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr09.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0209.4E4CCDD7.019F:SCFSTAT14830815,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP - problems From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Pierre Joye wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Lester Caine wrote: >> > Pierre Joye wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Another great example of a successful is the freedesktop project. They >>> >> have 100s of sub project and each of them have modules. >> > >> > Can I suggest you have a closer look at this conversion Pierre and work out >> > what is currently missing from it ... hint - as a new developer how do I >> > 'check out (clone)' a copy of libraoffice. > By RTFM:http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/developers/ Exactly ... While there were separate submodules for each section, as a result of converting the modular structure of the original CVS code base, those are now marked as obsolete ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice ) because submodules does not work well, they have simply rolled the modules back into core ... a single monolithic repo :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php