On Mar 25, 2015 9:28 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 26 March 2015 at 01:57, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Zachary Ware wrote:
> >> On Mar 25, 2015 4:22 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On a related note, is there any information available on how the
> >>> "externals" repo is maintained? In particular, should things in there
> >>> be exact copies of upstream, or is it OK to include extra data (in
> >>> this case, the results of running "configure" for the Windows build)?
> >>> It works for me either way, it's just a matter of how the build
> >>> process would be structured and maintained.
> >>
> >> Its not extremely clear how it's "supposed to be" done; look at the differences
> >> between how we handle OpenSSL and Tcl/Tk, for example. One way or the other,
> >> though, we will store the configure output so that our build doesn't depend on
> >> any more than it absolutely has to.
> >
> > It would be nice for at least one other person to know how to do it. I can't see the SVN logs, but I feel like you're the only person who's touched it in a while :)
> >
> > As well as the configure output, we sometimes include very light patching (for example, Tcl/Tk currently has a patch to their makefile to work around a VC14 bug). I'm not sure whether that's considered good practice or not, but I prefer only needing to do it once vs. building it into the build system.
>
> It likely makes sense to try to at least write down the status quo
> regarding the externals repo as a new top level section in the
> Developer's Guide. That way you'll at least have a shared
> understanding of the starting point for any further improvements.

I'll try to get something thrown together at least by the time I leave PyCon.  Unfortunately I can't guarantee anything sooner than that.

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Zach
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