[tahoe-dev] moving to Git!

[Greg Troxel]

Jimmy Tang <jcftang at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
>> Without thinking too much, my reaction is that the whole SUMO thing is
>> working around broken packaging systems or operating systems without a
>> healthy packaging ecosystem.  That's fine to do, but it seems odd to
>> pull in the source for all the things tahoe depends on into the source
>> tree, even by reference.
>
> Greg: sorry for the duplicate mail, I didn't hit reply-all on my
> initial response.
>
> In general I would agree with your comments, though I have found that
> the SUMO build is just plain convenient for when I have access to
> machines but not root access to install dependancies, giving me the
> capability to run the software in the user land without much hassle.

Agreed (although with pkgsrc I think you can build everything
unprivileged in a path in your homedir, but that fails the "too much
hassle" test).  I didn't mean to say I thought the SUMO build shouldn't
exist.  Just that it seems like the included bits don't really belong in
tahoe vcs.
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