[petsc-dev] Fwd: [petsc-maint #119133] petsc-dev configure crash

[Barry Smith]

On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

>>> A) make buildsystem a subrepo (svn external for those familiar with svn)
>> 
>>   There have already been many discussions on petsc-dev about how hg subrepos suck and don't satisfy all our needs.
> 
> That's why I asked about a current list to see exactly what need isn't
> met.

     Check the old email. Satish and Matt had specific concerns.

> So far, I only have that older mercurial clients wouldn't be able
> to push (but pulling should work fine); so all devs would need a
> recent mercurial client.

   As I mentioned in my email to Jed. There needs to be a way to enforce the use of a recent mercurial client.

> 
>>> B) merge buildsystem into petsc-dev and use graft / transplant to
>>> maintain a separate repo
>> 
>>   Yuck.
> 
> Yuck? Everyone would win: Matt would have his separate repo and there
> would be no more unsynchronized changesets.

    It sounds hacky. If it is not hacky and Matt is fine with this then we could go that route.

   Barry