Would GIT submodules be a good idea?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-17 20:18, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> torhu Wrote:
>
>> Okay, I think I get the picture now.  Sounds like a good plan, then.
>>
>> Would DWT become a single repository with all platform implementations
>> and snippets in it, that has the base Java library as a submodule?  Or
>> would it be dwt-win, dwt-linux, dwt-snippets, etc.?  The former sounds
>> simpler, but the latter could make it possible to get rid of the extra
>> directory levels that DWT2 uses currently.
>
> My thought is:
> Java runtime
> Eclipse runtime
> jface
> DWT (Submodules for Java, Eclipse, Jface)
> snippets (dwt and jface) (submodules for DWT)

That looks reasonable. But shouldn't it look something like this, 
submodules in parentheses:

Java runtime
Eclipse runtime (java runtime)
DWT (Eclipse runtime)
JFace (DWT)
snippets (jface)

This is how the dependencies look like. Read "->" as depends on

Java runtime ->
Eclipse runtime -> java runtime
DWT -> Eclipse runtime, java runtime
JFace -> DWT, Eclipse runtime, java runtime
snippets -> JFace, DWT, Eclipse runtime, java runtime

All of these dependencies are not direct dependencies.

I mean, if the Eclipse runtime repository doesn't contain a submodule 
for the Java runtime it can't work on its own.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg