[petsc-dev] migrating repos from petsc.cs.iit.edu to bitbucket.org

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I'm in the process of migrating repos from petsc.cs.iit.edu to
> bitbucket.org, and have to resolve a few organization issues.
> 
> Restrictions.
> - all repos should be lowercase
> - no subdir organization possible [like http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/]
> 
> 1. Since we are forced to change reponame from 'BuildSystem' to
> 'buildsystem' - I'd like to take this opportunity to change it to
> 'buildsystem-dev' to be consistent with petsc-dev. i.e instructions
> will be:
> 
> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev
> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-dev petsc-dev/config/BuildSystem
> 
> or
> 
> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-release
> hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-release petsc-release/config/BuildSystem
> 
> and current clones would need updates to .hg/hgrc only.
> 
> one alternative was to change the path in source to
> petsc-dev/config/buildsystem but it will cause some breakage and other
> inconsistencies in source file naming scheming - so I'm against that

   What breakage. I really don't like having caps in one place and small letters in another. Horrible inconsistency

    Barry

> 
> another alternative is to use 'petsc', 'buildsystem', 'petsc-release',
> 'buildsystem-release' [but we have too much baggage referring to
> petsc-dev, with a mailing list etc reusing this name]
> 
> 2. I plan to reorganize external package repos [that we might have
> patches for] with a pkg prefix.
> 
> i.e
> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/metis-5.0.2
> http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/parmetis-4.0.2
> 
> to:
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis-5.0.2
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis-4.0.2
> 
> etc..
> 
> 3. Are AMS, ctetgen, win32fe special packages and be listed at toplevel?
> currently ctetgen is listed under 'externalpackages'. Should it be at toplevel?
> 
> i.e
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/win32fe-dev
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ams-dev
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ctetgen-dev
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> thanks,
> Satish
> 
> 
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