On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:33, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> On 2004-10-14, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
> > Can the people responsible please rewrite the spanish translation's
> > build system to reference the versions of those items sitting in
> > the main doc directory?
>
> On 2004-10-14, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > I could see us using svn:externals to pull something in from a
> > foreign repository, but it seems silly to use it for this.
>
> On 2004-10-14, "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@collab.net> wrote:
> > +1
>
> The purpose of using externals is to:
>
> 1a. Avoid every user to perform two checkouts where one can be
> done if it is decided to avoid including the tools directory
> in the spanish directory to optimize disk space on the server.
>
> 1b. Avoid maintenance problems in terms of syncronization if it is
> decided to duplicate the tools directory another time in the
> spanish directory.
>
> 2. Avoid people involved in the translation proyect or following
> users to need a full tree checkout to build the book.
>
> I am astonished that a feature Subversion offers to either avoid
> maintenance issues for the coordinator or maintenance issues for
> the users, instead of being applauded is considered annoying.
>
> However, since I already gave up decision freedom by joining the
> main repository, and don't feel like going back, I have chosen 1b
> from the two lesser devils as end user satisfaction is a priority.
>
> It would be also be a good time to document somewhere the banning
> of this feature (and maybe others too?) for future reference. I
> wouldn't like to start using mime-types to later learn they are
> also an unwanted baggage for the rest of the repository's users.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa there a second. You're *really* blowing this out of
proportion. The main point here is this:
You are causing people who checkout the Subversion source tree to
get the tools directory TWICE. Change your book's build file to use the
tools directory in /doc/book/tools.
-Fitz
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