Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Gently migrating to Git + Gerrit

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 August 2013 19:11, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/6/13 4:18 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote:

> Currently all the library archives are stored in SVN and if we simply convert it
> to Git anyone cloning the repository would have to download all the libs ever
> checked in (unless using git clone --depth which imposes other limitations).
> Handling binary files is not exactly where Git shines. There is a
> separate project,
> git-annex to support using Git helping file storage, but Windows support is not
> perfect according to the project's page [1].
>
> Regarding the libraries I think it would probably be enough to use a
> downloadable
> .zip file containing a snapshot of the needed Windows libraries
> instead of cloning
> a Subversion/Git repository to the machine. The scripts maintaining the snapshot
> could be stored in Git, of course, but I'm not sure if rethinking the
> library installation
> should happen before moving the main codebase to Gerrit.

Good point. Ultimately I'd like to get out of the third party package
business. At Sharkfest Graham mentioned that Nuget
(http://www.nuget.org/) is starting to gain popularity as a way to
package development libraries for Windows. I'm hoping we can migrate
from what we currently have to a set of scripts that generate packages
and upload them to Nuget.org.

I was leaning more to Chocolatey (http://http://chocolatey.org/) which is a helper wrapper around Nuget.  However, someone will still have to create the Chocolatey or Nuget packages, I suppose we could create them first ourselves and then try to push them upstream to the library originator.