Submodules for language bindings (was: Github?)

Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras at gmail.com
Fri May 9 05:40:27 PDT 2014


Suvayu Ali wrote:
> You have a point, however I would still disagree.  You seem to use
> Gentoo, and I think what you say works better for Gentoo because it is
> a source distribution.  For binary distributions, this is a bit harder
> (and limiting).

No, it's not harder.

> To explain my point with RPM specifics, if I were to
> use separate spec files, python-notmuch would have:
> 
>   Requires: notmuch >= <version-string>
> 
> As you can see this only allows for tracking dependency based on
> official version numbers.  With more bindings, many with different
> version dependencies, this becomes quite cumbersome;

No, it doesn't:

  %package notmuch-ruby
  Requires: notmuch = %{version}-%{release}, ruby

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Felipe Contreras


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