Re: [DynInst_API:] RFC: unify the dyninst and testsuite repos


Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 08:56:39 -0400
From: Peter Foley <pefoley2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [DynInst_API:] RFC: unify the dyninst and testsuite repos
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Jeff Hollingsworth <hollings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree this makes sense to have as one repo.  The exact why it was split is
> long ago lost to me.
>
> I don't think the source tar ball size is an issue.   I also think merging
> the cmake is a good longer term goal.
>
> The only thing that makes sense is to keep the RPMs separate since there
> could be situations where production machines need dyninst, but would not
> want the test cases.
>
> Jeff

Assuming we want to move forward on this, it should be fairly simple to just
use git-subtree
(https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/subtree/git-subtree.txt)
to merge the testsuite repo with full history and add an
add_subdirectory(testsuite) cmake
call to build the testsuite.

Thanks,

Peter
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