Hi,
Concerning external package, I suggest that RIOT download and store the archive in pkg folder then extract here in the right location to be compiled. This is helpful when you work on a package so you don't need to download it again every time after a `make clean` or when you compile another example, you need to download it again. What do you think?
Cheers,
Hi Baptiste,
So you mean that git-cache is already used and allow to download an archive of a .git repo? Could you give me an example of a package that is download as an archive and store so you don't need to git clone again?
Hi Baptiste!
So you mean that git-cache is already used and allow to download an archive of a .git repo?
Yes, but you have to "install" git-cache first (see dist/tools/git/README.md).
Could you give me an example of a package that is download as an archive and store so you don't need to git clone again?
Every git-based package uses git-cache, e.g. nanocoap or ccn-lite.
Cheers, Oleg
Thank you for your answers.
I see! Very interesting feature and I really think it should be enabled by default! What's your opinion?
Hi!
Hi Baptiste, Oleg,
Hi!
> I see! Very interesting feature and I really think it should be > enabled by default! What's your opinion?
Not sure what you mean. The feature is enabled by default, the only thing you need to do is to add git-cache to your $PATH.
That's not necessary. RIOT's build system looks explicitly in `dist/tools/git` for `git-cache`. However, it is necessary to initialize `git-cache` once with `$RIOT/dist/tools/git/git-cache init`. This will create an empty bare git reposiroty in $HOME that is used to cache the necessary git objects.
Cheers, Cenk
Hi Baptiste, Oleg,
Hi!
> I see! Very interesting feature and I really think it should be > enabled by default! What's your opinion?
Not sure what you mean. The feature is enabled by default, the only thing you need to do is to add git-cache to your $PATH.
That's not necessary. RIOT's build system looks explicitly in `dist/tools/git` for `git-cache`. However, it is necessary to initialize `git-cache` once with `$RIOT/dist/tools/git/git-cache init`. This will create an empty bare git reposiroty in $HOME that is used to cache the necessary git objects.
Yes it is what I mean, `git-cache` should be initialized automatically at the first compilation. I do think it is possible and will avoid people to forget to initialize it.
Cool! Let’s do a PR? Or is there any other problem?