Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Reorganization and splitting

On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Wez Furlong wrote:
>>> Want != need... what's the technical reason for having multiple  
>>> repos?
>> I'm not sure I understand fully same repo vs. multiple repos issue  
>> - so if PECL lives in php-src repo, does it mean I can easily check  
>> out PHP source without checking out PECL?
> Yeah, there's no problem with being selective about what you checkout.
>
> My question was more from a perspective of what do we gain by having  
> separate repos, when we lose for PECL (in particular) the ability to  
> merge (and track) changes between php-src and PECL.
>
> FWIW, I'm strongly opposed to having php-src and pecl be in separate  
> repos, because this kind of merging happens often.

It's a maitenance question. Each repository has its own authorization/ 
authentication scheme, set of hook scripts, etc. For people like GTK  
and PEAR, these would be an improvement over the current merged setup.  
PECL and php-src will stay together.

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