Re: Submodules for language bindings (was: Github?)

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+On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 03:29:31PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote:\r
+> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 12:00:46AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:\r
+> > One of my TODOs is to also package the ruby bindings, and\r
+> > notmuch-vim.  The only thing preventing me now is my unfamiliarty\r
+> > with ruby, and Fedora packaging guidelines for ruby-gems.\r
+> \r
+> I think this is one argument argument in favor of submodules, because\r
+> they make it easy to treat the bindings as separate packages.  Once\r
+> you have separate packages, it's easy to delegate packaging (e.g. “I\r
+> don't use the Ruby bindings, so I'm not going to maintain the\r
+> Ruby-binding package.  I'll leave that to Alice, who likes Ruby, but\r
+> is less familiar with $distro's Python packaging”).\r
+\r
+Well as far as my understanding of rpm goes, sub-packages are prefered\r
+here rather than independent packages.  I believe the reason is again\r
+easier dependency tracking[1]; all sub-packages share the same source\r
+rpm, so no explicit `Requires' in the spec file.\r
+\r
+Cheers,\r
+\r
+Footnotes:\r
+\r
+[1] yum and it's ilk don't do that by magic, the packager needs to add\r
+    instructions in the spec file for that to work correctly.  With\r
+    sub-packages, this becomes redundant.\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Suvayu\r
+\r
+Open source is the future. It sets us free.\r