Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Reorganization and splitting

For the record, I talked to Gwynne on IRC and said GTK would need its own repo, but I was 
under the impression that this was something that was required. If it's not, I'm just fine 
with keeping it all in the same repo.

-Andrei

Gwynne Raskind wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code
> "This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."
>