ghc-compete, a repository of fingerprints, and continuous integration

[Arash Rouhani]

Hi all,

On 2013-10-12 11:15, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Hello Simon!
>
> On 2013-10-11 at 12:59:07 +0200, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> This is great.  With a bit of extra tool support for this we could
>> actually do without submodules and go back to individual
>> repos. Checking out a GHC revision in the past could consist of
>> querying your ghc-complete repo for the fingerprint and then running
>> the fingerprint tool.
>>
>> (unless you haven't guessed, I'm not a huge fan of submodules)
> What problems do you see with Git submodules specifically? I'm asking
> because I believe that we might be able address most of the concerns you
> have by tooling (e.g. by server-side hooks to enforce inter-repo
> invariants with respect to Git submodules, as well as client-side
> scripts to automate common developer tasks) so that the perceived pain
> of submodules can be reduced enough to make the change-function
> significantly more favorable for switching to Git submodules (+ folding
> some repos which are very tightly coupled/entangled to GHC into ghc.git
> itself, such as testsuite or nofib)
I think newcomers like me would dive faster into ghc development if it 
used git submodules, since it's a familiar and standard tooling for 
version pinning. Given that thought I'll let the experienced people 
decide. :)

Cheers,
Arash
>
> Cheers,
>    hvr
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