[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Centralized cookbook-library repos vs distributed cookbook repos

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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Adam Jacob 
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> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Alex Soto 
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>> great discussion, definitely a pain I'm experiencing while trying to use 
>> the platform is how to have my repo, have recipes from other repos and 
>> still track upstream changes and hopefully contribute back.
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>> I think using git is a fair assumption for most of us early adopters.  For 
>> the few that don't, a tarball is what you get.
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>> I don't want to sound as elitist of git vs other scm's.  It's actually for 
>> efficiency.  The chef community isn't large enough to give all this 
>> flexibility to everyone.  Git is the chosen tool for the time being.  
>> Sooner or later, someone else will scratch their itch for svn, mercurial, 
>> etc or other better workflows will emerge.  Like water flowing downhill, 
>> someone will find the path of least resistance, but in the meantime, don't 
>> put too many hurdles in front of the community at large for the few in the 
>> minority.
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> Is the workflow I outlined earlier not efficient enough still?

Depends.
How long do I have to wait for someone's cookbook change in the repo
to showup in:
/Users/adam/src/sandbox/opscode/chef-repo/cookbooks/apache2.tar.gz

True,

$ ./knife cookbook site vendor apache2 0.9.1

is as good as

$ (cd <cookbook>; git pull)

I just ask:
Is pay the price of giving up distributed cookbook development worth
the effort saved in dependency management?
I think that depends on the dependency mangement alternatives.

My inital raction is no it is not worth it, and is worth looking into.

Regards

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> much smaller can I make it? :)
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> Adam
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