Re: Submodules for language bindings (was: Github?)

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:40:27AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > 
> > > To explain my point with RPM specifics, if I were to
> > > use separate spec files, python-notmuch would have:
> > > 
> > >   Requires: notmuch >= <version-string>
> > > 
> > > As you can see this only allows for tracking dependency based on
> > > official version numbers.  With more bindings, many with different
> > > version dependencies, this becomes quite cumbersome;
> > 
> > No, it doesn't:
> > 
> >   %package notmuch-ruby
> >   Requires: notmuch = %{version}-%{release}, ruby
> 
> Doesn't that work when you have one spec file for all sub-packages (as I
> do now)?  I was responding to Trevor's suggestion about not having
> sub-packages, IOW, different spec files for different packages.

Ah. I don't see why anybody would want different spec files for
different subpackages.

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Felipe Contreras