As I understand it, the only reason why we maintain a fork of Adaptagrams is that there isn't an upstream release yet.

Is anyone in touch with the upstream Adaptagrams dev (M Wybrow)? If we could persuade him to make a release tarball, perhaps we can get it adopted by some distros... and then finally drop our fork!

On 17 Jul 2017 18:56, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote:

I'm concerned about reports like these of compatibility issues when
using git submodules.

I haven't used git submodules myself but I have used similar
functionality in other VCS's in the past and had similar experiences
with them causing problems integrating with other tools, and needing
more manual attention and management than expected.

I suspect it will be easier for especially new devs if we stick with
external dependencies for what can be external, and copied-in code for
whatever can't, and focus on minimizing the latter and maximizing the
former as much as possible.

Bryce

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 03:47:58PM +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> I attempted to sync the code for my other project
> (launchpad.net/qwwad) from github to Launchpad so I could build a PPA
> from a source recipe... it seems that git submodules were ignored in
> the import!
>
> AV
>
> On 17 July 2017 at 15:10, Tobias Ellinghaus <houz@...173...> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 17. Juli 2017, 14:24:21 CEST schrieb Sylvain Chiron:
> >> Le 16/07/2017 à 13:09, Alex Valavanis a écrit :
> >> > This would also be highly desirable, but we should ensure that Inkscape
> >> > can still build on systems that don't support submodules.
> >>
> >> Why? What can be a system that doesn’t support submodules? Aren’t there
> >> managed by Git?
> >
> > "git archive" doesn't include submodules, so anything that uses a tarball
> > generated from that will miss parts of the sources.
> >
> >> --
> >> Sylvain
> >
> > Tobias
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