Common makefile (gasp) stuff

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/15/15 10:27 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:08:14PM +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Important thing here is that starting with git 1.8.2 it is possible to
>> set submodule to track head of remote branch instead of fixed commit
>> hash - which fixes the maintenance issue and is exactly the thing
>> needed for meta-dlang repo.
>
> Very nice!! I wasn't aware of that... I must be behind the times. :-P
>
> @Andrei: I think this nullifies about 50% of the naysayers' arguments
> against git submodules. Another issue is also that people used git
> submodules for things it wasn't intended for, and got burned as a
> result. Not really the fault of the feature. There *are* still some
> things to be desired, though, so it's not quite perfect yet. But it
> should be a lot more usable than before.

I'd be okay with reorganizing our repos as a module with the submodules 
dmd, druntime, phobos, and tools. For that we'd need a champion who is 
willing to try it, experiment with it (e.g. in a separate repo), 
demonstrate its advantages and discuss its disadvantages, and carry the 
actual porting work.

It seems to me we'd need to derive a few more advantages than solving 
the particular matter I opened this thread with.


Andrei