[oXygen-user] Git submodules in frameworks

[Tony Graham]

On 09/11/2020 22:49, Christophe Marchand wrote:
> Hum... Gerrit uses a lot submodules in his/their product, with
> success. In my opinion, it's not enough. There is nothing that avoid
> you to set your submodule reference to a branch under developement.

Nothing except a bit of discipline to always have submodules checked out
at tags when they are committed in the superproject.  Presumably you
could also automate a test of the files in one or the other '.git'
directory to check that each submodule's commit matches the format of a
tag rather than an SHA-1.  You could probably test it just with a script
and the 'git' shell command, but I haven't looked into that, either.

...
> You'd better build your framework, deploy it to an artifact
> repository (a basic file web server), and then configure oXygen to
> get this framework from this location.

You can make Oxygen get a specific version of a framework straight from
GitHub:

    https://inasmuch.as/2013/10/23/oxygen-add-on-hosted-on-github/

As it happens, I first did this for a framework of Wendell's.

Regards,


Tony Graham.
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