[Dev] Planned build/tree changes

[Heikki Toivonen]

We are planning on doing some pretty major changes to the way people get 
and build Chandler from source. The major idea is that we want to get 
rid of the 3rd party libraries from our source tree, especially those 
that we do not change. We want to encourage developers to not building 
everything from scratch, and instead just get the binaries for those 
third party libraries and concentrate on working with Chandler Python 
source.

In other words, the goals/requirements include:
    * Make it easy to develop Chandler
    * Make it easier to migrate to newer versions of 3rd party libraries
    * Use the 3rd party libraries that already exist on your system
    * Reduce the CVS repository size
    * Discourage building 3rd party packages unless you have to

We don't have anything set in stone yet, but some preliminary thinking 
can be seen here: 
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/twiki/bin/view/Chandler/WindowsBuild

Andi has volunteered as our guinea pig and he is in the process of 
figuring out how this could work with things in osaf/chandler/persistence.

We know that going this route has its own challenges, and it is easy to 
make things hard for developers. If you have experience with a project 
that uses 3rd party libraries and has developed good processes to deal 
with them, we'd love to hear from you. Also, if you have bad experiences 
those would help as well, because we want to avoid previous mistakes.

Please note that these planned changes have NOTHING to do with end user 
installers.

-- 
   Heikki Toivonen


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