[Development] Module maintainers: action required (Coin slowly migrates from sync.profile to .gitmodules)

[Dominik Holland]

Am 08/18/2016 um 05:41 PM schrieb Jędrzej Nowacki:
> Hi,
> 
> Short version:
>   We plan to migrate from using sync.profile to qt5/.gitmodules in Coin, so 
> please make sure that the files are in sync and that they contain sensible 
> informations in every actively maintained branch.
> 
> Long version:
>   Currently, for every integration Coin is reading module dependency from 
> sync.profile which is stored in the root directory of every module. The file 
> contains section that looks more or less like that:
>   %dependencies = (
>           "qtbase" => "",
>           "qtxmlpatterns" => "",
>   );
> Which means that the module depends on qtbase and qtxmlpatterns. Now this 
> approach happened to be not flexible enough, as it doesn't allow  to easily 
> define an alternative dependency chain without changing content of the module 
> or forcing rebuild of depending modules. We want to migrate to qt5/.gitmodules 
> that looks like that:
>   [submodule "qtdeclarative"]
>           depends = qtbase
>           recommends = qtsvg qtxmlpatterns
>           path = qtdeclarative
>           url = ../qtdeclarative.git
>           branch = dev
>           status = essential
> As it leave outside of the module we can easily use a shadow definition that 
> overwrites certain aspects of it. As a bonus changing .gitmodules would 
> trigger partial qt5 check, verifying if all leaf modules are intact.
> For integrations Coin will use union of "depends" and "recommends" fields.

How are the dependencies managed for projects/modules which are not part
of the qt5.git but are part of coin ?

Dominik

> 
> Thank you!
>   Jędrek
> 
> ps. I heard rumors that Oswald want deprecate sync.profile too :-)
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