Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#91 closed task
reorganize egg repository to cut down working copy size — at Version 4
| Reported by: | felix winkelmann | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | extensions | Version: | 4.2.x |
| Keywords: | repository | Cc: | Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Description (last modified by )
Checking out the complete egg repository requires a considerable amount of disk space. During a discussion with ashinn, sjamaan, iraikov, zbigniew and mario, we came to the conclusion that it would be a win if one could merely check out the development sources, not the tagged copies. One possible new layout would be:
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.scm stable/release/4/spuffy/spiffy.setup ... dev/release/4/spiffy/1.0 dev/release/4/spiffy/1.1 ...
Things to keep in mind:
- the henrietta instances have to be updated to export from the correct URLs
- the restructuring will invalidate all working copies and likely make it very difficult to check in uncommitted changes, so the change should be announced early enough and be done during of period in which no other repo access can take place
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Replying to tonysidaway:
Felix, in your opening entry, you refer to the following pattern for the stable branch:
stable/release/4/spiffy.scm
stable/release/4/spiffy.setup
Do you mean the following?
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.scm
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.setup
Yes, that's right. Sorry.
If you do the former I think it implies that all source files from all eggs would share the same directory and hence the same file namespace, which would definitely not work without renaming a lot of source files (doc.scm, tests/run.scm, etc). It would also make it difficult to check out the stable branch of a single egg.
Quite right - I incorreclty omitted the eggname.
Although this would probably impact me as any time I'm developing Chicken software I'm likely to be working on eggs continually, I welcome the proposal and don't mind the minor inconvenience that might be caused by having to adapt a set of uncommitted changes to the new directory structure. After the transition one would just have to repeat the checkout for the new structure and then merge in the changed files, copy the release to the new dev branch, and commit in both branches. Have I missed anything out?
Being able to check out development copies of many eggs easily without a high cost in diskspace would be a very worthwhile change, and one especially evident to me as I'm working on a 10GB Ubuntu installation on a laptop most of the time.
Felix, in your opening entry, you refer to the following pattern for the stable branch:
stable/release/4/spiffy.scm
stable/release/4/spiffy.setup
Do you mean the following?
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.scm
stable/release/4/spiffy/spiffy.setup
If you do the former I think it implies that all source files from all eggs would share the same directory and hence the same file namespace, which would definitely not work without renaming a lot of source files (doc.scm, tests/run.scm, etc). It would also make it difficult to check out the stable branch of a single egg.