[Grok-dev] Re: Martian as an external in the Grok trunk

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> I'm still not sure. But I don't also know how to formulate my arguments 
> more clearly at this moment. I'll get back on it when I do.

I just had an idea elsewhere in this thread. Next time we feel the need 
to change a dependency such as Martian and then change Grok, we should 
branch it first. We also branch Grok. We put in an external in the Grok 
branch to rely on the Martian branch. The developer of the code is happy 
as they can buildout a working checkout at any time. We then do our work 
on both branches.

When merging the Grok branch into the trunk, we need to merge Martian 
branch first, and update a new version. We can then remove the external 
from the Grok branch, test, and if it works, merge the updated version 
into the trunk. This way those who rely on the trunk at least aren't 
bothered by the appearance of new externals.

I'm not sure whether this strategy can *always* work, but I think we can 
do it most of the time we need to develop a dependency in parallel with 
Grok. Would this make you happier? There'd still be an external on the 
branch...

Regards,

Martijn