If we can do that, the developers who need the whole thing can
learn to use mget rather than get. I just don't think we can
manage 2 and 3 by splitting off the architecture directories.
> (In this case we might even have some subsets of the x86 -- such
> as GGI vs. non-GGI).
Ick. This would turn into two separate versions real fast.
> How much trouble would it be to do that? (I guess you'd have to
> have a set of "meta makefiles" that would specify which portions
> of the source tree were needed by which source subsets).
The only practical objections I remember to splitting off e.g. the
CD-ROM drivers were the not-having of the split-off pieces by
the developers (mget is your friend...) and the difficulty of
applying whole-tree patches to a partial tree (this would take at
least a smarter patch tool and probably a new patch format as well).
There also may be valid objections I don't remember or which are
new...
Keith
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