[Bf-committers] Directory visibility on web and git access

[Campbell Barton]

good point, it warns about this too now.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Isn't a worse issue that it breaks addons and addons_contrib?
>
> Martin
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
>>To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:29:49 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Directory visibility on web and git access
>>
>>Hi Jonathan,
>>Since we had this issue reported a few times, CMake now checks for
>>this and warns (but continues building).
>>
>>CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:357 (message):
>>  Translation path '/dsk/data/src/blender/blender/release/datafiles/locale'
>>  is missing, This is an 'svn external', which are known not to work with
>>  bridges to other version control systems, disabling 'WITH_INTERNATIONAL'.
>>
>>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 AM, jonathan d p ferguson
>><jdpf.plus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hi.
>>>
>>> Yep. Based on my reading, "git svn" does not yet support svn:externals at all. One may use a number of different helper scripts to get around this difficulty. There are also many strategies to solving this problem. One that might be useful is: https://github.com/andrep/git-svn-clone-externals
>>>
>>> It is worth noting that simply creating a symlink in the right place may not create builds that are portable from that development system (this was my experience on Linux anyway using cmake and Makefiles)--- "make install" will merely copy the symlink--- not follow it. Symlinks, while supported on NTFS/Windows are less common than in Unix-like operating systems, so one might not see this issue on that platform.
>>>
>>> Finally, I wanted to thank the Blender development community for making such an awesome work of art.
>>>
>>> Moreover, I commend the maintainers of the Blender build systems, it is now trivial to get blender built on GNU/Linux using cmake.
>>>
>>> So a big Thank You to everyone who has added to the amazing thing that is Blender!
>>>
>>> have a day.yad
>>> jdpf
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:53 AM, Martin Poirier wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The datafiles directory has the following svn property:
>>>>
>>>> svn:externals = locale https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-translations/trunk/locale
>>>>
>>>> Which links the locale subdirectory to another repository.
>>>>
>>>> This is also the case for release/scripts for the addons and addons_contrib folders:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> addons https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons
>>>> addons_contrib https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/contrib/py/scripts/addons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like git's svn support doesn't allow externals out of the box.
>>>>
>>>> Good luck!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>> From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander.lairson at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:44:16 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Directory visibility on web and git access
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am new to blender and this is my first post in this mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently I tried to download blender source code from official svn
>>>>> repository through "git svn":
>>>>>
>>>>> $ mkdir blender-svn
>>>>> $ cd blender-svn
>>>>> $ git svn clone https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender blender
>>>>>
>>>>> Code compile successfully but I got an error during "make install",
>>>>> saying "locale" file was not found. And indeed the directory
>>>>> "release/datafiles/locale" was not there. Then I tried to download it
>>>>> through normal svn client and everything worked fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Going deeper into this problem I noticed when trying to see the
>>>>> repository through web I cannot see the locale directory [1]. The
>>>>> directory is not there also for the official git mirror [2]. Trying to
>>>>> download the master branch as a .tar.gz doesn't work either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/release/datafiles/
>>>>>
>>>>> [2] https://gitorious.org/blenderprojects/blender/trees/master/blender/release/datafiles
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Wander Lairson Costa
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Bf-committers mailing list
>>>>> Bf-committers at blender.org
>>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Bf-committers mailing list
>>>> Bf-committers at blender.org
>>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Bf-committers mailing list
>>> Bf-committers at blender.org
>>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>- Campbell
>>_______________________________________________
>>Bf-committers mailing list
>>Bf-committers at blender.org
>>http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>>
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-committers mailing list
> Bf-committers at blender.org
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers



-- 
- Campbell