Re: Why we should avoid new submodules if possible

["Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:07:48PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 07:00:59AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > git submodules are awkward basically because they are an automated wget.
> > > I don't think an explicit wget is much better ... but
> > > looks like I'm alone in this. Oh well.
> > > So it will be a weird dance of wget a tarball, unpack, generate
> > > ISO and run. God help you if you need to patch the test - it's
> > > wget all the way down.
> > 
> > That's the problem - the submodules are not automated. They are
> > half-automated, and the rules for when the automation works and for when
> > the automation falls apart are not intellibible for the general Joe
> > Developer.
> > 
> > You might spend a few days studying how they behave exactly, and then you
> > will know. But unless you will use them every day you will forget again,
> > because the rules do not lend themselves to some abstraction easily
> > understood by humans.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Michal
> 
> But why would learning a different tool be easier?

a) it's working lends itself to explaining in human-intelligible
concepts

b) it's used elsewhere as well

Thanks

Michal