Re: [boost] [regression] OK to merge? Should tools/regression beasubmodule?

Subject: Re: [boost] [regression] OK to merge? Should tools/regression beasubmodule?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-02 11:29:46

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>> That would be an example of why making tools/regression a submodule is
>> worthwhile. If we do that first, and then the merge afterwards, life gets
>> simpler.
>>
>
> One might even say that this is an argument for making everything a
> submodule, leaving almost nothing in the superproject.
>

Good point.

IIRC, several people argued for that right from the start.

I was a bit resistant until we developed more expertise working with
submodules, but now that I've actually been working with submodules I'm
leaning much more toward the "leaving almost nothing in the superproject"
viewpoint.