Re: LDAP SDK and source repositories

Serge Gautherie <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:06 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.directory
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Smith wrote:

> Given the relatively small size of all of the LDAP code, I don't see a 
> big advantage in the "one repository per SDK" solution.  It seems like 
> less overhead and simpler to me to have one repository for all of the 
> LDAP SDKs.  There may be a technical (hg) or philosophical reason to 
> have separate repos that I am not aware of though.

(for me)
The main reason is technical: to be able to handle the c-sdk separately.
But, if that doesn't matter (anymore), I assume a directory repo with 
all the sdks would be fine.

> Also, I am not in favor of a solution that will cause two copies of the 
> code to be maintained (or stored) in two different places.

I concurr.

> Pulling from the same repository but using a tag to 
> provide stability to consumers like TBird and SeaMonkey is my 
> preference.  I assume that is what is still done for NSS and NSPR?

Yes, and for cvs c-sdk too ;-)