[Nagiosplug-devel] Extra opts help text

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/16/2010 10:19 AM, Ton Voon wrote:
> 
> I'm not keen on auto download from CPAN because that means the version
> of N::P is decided at dist time and is not recorded. At least with the
> tarballs, we know exactly which version of N::P is included with which
> particular np. Also, dependent modules would be updated underneath you.
> 
> Then again, if someone was installing nagiosplug and N::P
> independently, there'd be no version dependency checking either.
> 
> I think the tarball is a better way. Don't think of it as "undiffable"
> differences, rather as recording the name and versions of dependent
> libraries.
> 

You'd save a lot on size and clutter if you tar them up but not compress
them in that case. Uncompressed tarballs delta just fine (although the
diffs are usually no fun to look at).

I'd sort it out with a 3-branch system; "master" which holds the "normal"
plugin code, "tarballs" which just holds all tarballs in a directory of
their own (or possibly subtree merging) and "release" which basically
just holds the sum total of the two branches. Having two branches with
separate starting points work just fine in git, so that shouldn't be a
problem.

OTOH, if both projects are stored in git, "release" might just as well
be a merge of master and a subtree merge of N::P.

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