[melbourne-pug] The One True way to structure repositories for common code re-use

[Peter Davis]

Hi,

Sounds like you probably have two libraries, a public and private one. I would fork the latter (private) from the former (public) and put it on a private online repository. Then you can install the private version using pip’s git+ssh functionality. 

Any changes you make to private library could be potentially pushed back upstream to the public one. 

Peter

On 6 May 2014, at 10:45 am, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>  
>   Suppose you are writing some code. Suppose one day, you decide "hey, this bit of code is sufficiently common, I'll make it into an independent library!", so you do that, you publish it on github and bask in the green-ness of your travis build.
> 
>   Now suppose you want to use this common library in your own "main" app somehow. You have a few options for including it:
> 
>   1) Local copy in your repo either as:
>     - Subrepo pointing at source,
>     - Subrepo pointing at your own fork (note: in the above case you might want to modify the public library in some way that is not compatible with the public goals, but more of a specific thing for your own internal stuff.)
> 
>   2) Local copy as symlink to a clone or fork as above
> 
>   3) Completely independent thing that you pip install
> 
>  What option do you take? (I've probably missed other better ideas.) I have some feelings about this, but I'm not entirely sure which way is the best way yet, and am interested in opinions, and maybe more interested in *what you actually do*.
> 
>   Suppose that the common library is changing "somewhat often"; maybe once a month or so. Let's suppose you'd prefer to move functionality into that library, but you can forsee needing to modify it for your own needs (well, if so, does this just flat-out eliminate option 3?).
> 
>   Note, I suppose, in the options where you might accidentally modify it (when you have a local copy) you probably need to be running the tests.
> 
> -- 
> Noon Silk
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