Re: Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:
> On 8/6/13 4:18 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>
> > Currently all the library archives are stored in SVN and if we simply convert it
> > to Git anyone cloning the repository would have to download all the libs ever
> > checked in (unless using git clone --depth which imposes other limitations).
> > Handling binary files is not exactly where Git shines. There is a
> > separate project,
> > git-annex to support using Git helping file storage, but Windows support is not
> > perfect according to the project's page [1].
> >
> > Regarding the libraries I think it would probably be enough to use a
> > downloadable
> > .zip file containing a snapshot of the needed Windows libraries
> > instead of cloning
> > a Subversion/Git repository to the machine. The scripts maintaining the snapshot
> > could be stored in Git, of course, but I'm not sure if rethinking the
> > library installation
> > should happen before moving the main codebase to Gerrit.
>
> Good point. Ultimately I'd like to get out of the third party package
> business. At Sharkfest Graham mentioned that Nuget
> (http://www.nuget.org/) is starting to gain popularity as a way to
> package development libraries for Windows. I'm hoping we can migrate
> from what we currently have to a set of scripts that generate packages
> and upload them to Nuget.org.

Similarly on Mac, it would be nice if the macosx-setup.sh script could
as much as possible be replaced with a set of homebrew packages (or
some other equivalent).
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