[Rivet] Move bootstrap into main repository for versioning?

[Andy Buckley]

On 06/02/14 12:37, Frank Siegert wrote:
> Thanks, David.
> 
> The separation rivet<->bootstrap sounds reasonable, although I was a
> bit worried about the hg "overhead" involved. But since I'm usually
> not the one doing the releases I probably won't have to worry about
> creating the release branches of the bootstrap script. I assume we
> will create new bootstrap release branches for every Rivet release
> even if the script didn't need any changes, right?
> 
> I have updated GettingStarted now, and at that time found it a bit
> strange to have a 2.0.0/rivet-2-bootstrap script. Should we take this
> opportunity to sort this into
> 
> 2.0.0/rivet-bootstrap
> 2.0.0/rivet-bootstrap-lcg
> 1.9.0/rivet-bootstrap-lcg

That sounds good to me. Thanks.

Andy


> On 6 February 2014 11:58, David Grellscheid
> <david.grellscheid at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>>> The current revision (ef0f9730654d) is fine for 2.0.0. Let me know
>>> once you have tagged it
>>
>> Done, it's a named branch to allow...
>>
>>> a bugfix on such a tag in case we notice something that is missing
>>
>> So as usual we need to make sure we check in things on the right branch!
>> The default branch can now lose all functionality needed for 2.0.0
>> compatibility.
>>
>> The download URL is
>>
>>  http://rivet.hepforge.org/hg/bootstrap/raw-file/2.0.0/rivet-2-bootstrap
>>
>>> Is there any benefit in having the bootstrap in a separate repo with
>>> manual tagging instead of in the main Rivet repo and thus
>>> automatically tagged?
>>
>> Yes, I think it does not belong _inside_ Rivet. It's something external
>> that needs bugfixes independently of the main Rivet tags.
>>
>> See you,
>>
>>   David
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