Re: octclip and geometry package

[Carnë Draug]

On 20 June 2013 13:45, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20 June 2013 13:23, José Luis García Pallero <address@hidden> wrote:
>> But in order to the package maintaining, I can only assure support for my
>> code, i. e. the code on https://bitbucket.org/jgpallero/octclip
>> Is there any way to do the changes (if they are needed) on
>> https://bitbucket.org/jgpallero/octclip and clone them on the repo for
>> geometry?
>
> It should be possible to have octclip has a subrepo inside the
> geometry repo. Kinda similar of what's happening with gnulib and
> Octave core. But if you're releasing octclip separately in any way
> it's a mess. Suppose someone has version X of octclip. And then
> installs geometry which includes version Y of octclip. Depending on
> the the order they installed the packages on that day they will have
> different results. And if other packages depend on octclip and another
> on geometry...
>
> I don't mind what happens as long as there's no 2 packages around with
> the same code. Either 1) geometry includes octclip and the octclip
> package is removed (it can still exist in a separate repository), or
> 2) geometry removes octclip and adds a dependency on octclip (if its
> functions really depend on it). However, if you go for the 1, please
> reconsider if it's really necessary to keep the extra repository.
> Having the two together does not mean you are responsible to give
> support to the whole thing. It's just an extra layer of unnecessary
> complexity.

Why don't we arrange to talk about this on IRC at a time that suits us all?

Carnë