From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932C9431FBF for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 15:45:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.799 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.799 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xkayktZLVnGR for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 15:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ee0-f48.google.com (mail-ee0-f48.google.com [74.125.83.48]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1C7A431FAE for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 15:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f48.google.com with SMTP id e49so2117435eek.7 for ; Thu, 08 May 2014 15:45:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=biXv/YSaJ8V7QGwigqWzTQEbCc4DScqWJ88IbWGAjwg=; b=N5eh1wwSWcjgTw+PlM8Q0WyvyEY8T8COZEoQ7dsVMp9Q5IQAYwEYZfXVPMpVGNKIx7 E3DIz9IpZj+cTBP49MdXRClJTB5SFRv730cUkAsFv+i2vuVIdEO2Tj3azWWiLKin6DsI iCr8aEBtref0KjUKtQHuLpd6DwhRsiiEVoSyvzZrs3Klpnltyi6rsEcVQkg+wums8n5E l3CYFivY+vrPwLCGs7qGT5RXvx0B9KpgxFTVAmJpCsYyM/rwY9iV7AZ0DoCj4hlKHuCf mAMSxXSnGGJKfkYlqkKA1+YNaKqsigJSINzMu/m7Nv6SsMHMs32fKFV182pzuanIw6iR LNXg== X-Received: by 10.14.108.198 with SMTP id q46mr8563541eeg.31.1399589130644; Thu, 08 May 2014 15:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chitra.no-ip.org (sd44012d5.adsl.online.nl. [212.64.18.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u46sm7178929eel.1.2014.05.08.15.45.29 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 May 2014 15:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Suvayu Ali Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 00:45:27 +0200 From: Suvayu Ali To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Submodules for language bindings (was: Github?) Message-ID: <20140508224527.GC2374@chitra.no-ip.org> Mail-Followup-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org References: <87iopgkaiz.fsf@nikula.org> <20140508101325.GC23124@vilya.m0g.net> <20140508203019.GA2374@chitra.no-ip.org> <20140508212100.GD23124@vilya.m0g.net> <20140508220046.GB2374@chitra.no-ip.org> <20140508222931.GU28634@odin.tremily.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140508222931.GU28634@odin.tremily.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1 (2013-10-16) X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 22:45:37 -0000 On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 03:29:31PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:00:46AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > One of my TODOs is to also package the ruby bindings, and > > notmuch-vim. The only thing preventing me now is my unfamiliarty > > with ruby, and Fedora packaging guidelines for ruby-gems. > > I think this is one argument argument in favor of submodules, because > they make it easy to treat the bindings as separate packages. Once > you have separate packages, it's easy to delegate packaging (e.g. “I > don't use the Ruby bindings, so I'm not going to maintain the > Ruby-binding package. I'll leave that to Alice, who likes Ruby, but > is less familiar with $distro's Python packaging”). Well as far as my understanding of rpm goes, sub-packages are prefered here rather than independent packages. I believe the reason is again easier dependency tracking[1]; all sub-packages share the same source rpm, so no explicit `Requires' in the spec file. Cheers, Footnotes: [1] yum and it's ilk don't do that by magic, the packager needs to add instructions in the spec file for that to work correctly. With sub-packages, this becomes redundant. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.