Re: Submodule usability

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sep 29, 2007, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709291453410.5926@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070929185238.GB19943@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

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> Hi Daniel
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:24:53PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > Also, would it be reasonable to have a gitmodules option for submodules 
> > that the supermodule doesn't make sense without? E.g., multiple projects 
> > are now using kbuild as their build system,
> 
> Out of couriosity...
> I know of busybox and klibc.
> Are there any others using kbuild these days?
> 
> I see that several build system share some ideas with kbuild
> which I btw am glad to see.
> But if there are enough project taking benefit of kbuild I should
> maybe revisit my idea to factor out all the common stuff somehow.

I'm only sure of busybox and klibc (3 including the kernel is "multiple"), but IIRC a number of linux-specific userspace projects seem awfully similar. I wouldn't be surprised if the build systems that currently share only ideas would share code if it were factored out.

	-Daniel
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