VCS code duplication and subordinate

[Marco Ceppi]

This might be a good time to mention there's a VCS Charm Helper:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charm-tools/trunk/view/head:/helpers/bash/vcs.bash
It's
use can be seen in the WordPress charm:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/precise/wordpress/trunk/view/head:/inc/common#L129
While
it doesn't handle things like maintenance, branches, authentication, it's
does alleviate the need of having a subordinate charm.

Thanks,
Marco Ceppi


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Mark Ramm <
mark.ramm-christensen at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 03/10/2013 02:06 PM, Patrick Hetu wrote:
>
>> In the process of building the Django charm, I realized that a lot of
>> charms are
>> repeating the parts that handle VCS. Like:
>>
>>    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~**charmers/charms/precise/node-**
>> app/trunk/view/head:/hooks/**install#L28<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/precise/node-app/trunk/view/head:/hooks/install#L28>
>>    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~**charmers/charms/precise/rack/**
>> trunk/view/head:/hooks/**install#L38<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/precise/rack/trunk/view/head:/hooks/install#L38>
>>    http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~**charmers/charms/precise/**
>> python-django/trunk/view/head:**/hooks/install#L36<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~charmers/charms/precise/python-django/trunk/view/head:/hooks/install#L36>
>>
>> There is also a blueprint here:
>>
>>    https://blueprints.launchpad.**net/juju/+spec/juju-charm-app-**
>> git-deployment<https://blueprints.launchpad.net/juju/+spec/juju-charm-app-git-deployment>
>>
>> So, I was thinking that we could create one subordinate charm per VCS to:
>>
>> 1) Reduce the installation time
>> 2) Ease the maintenance
>> 3) Include more advance stuff like branches, authentification, etc
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>  It's also possible to add this to a standard library of charm tools,
> rather than do it in a subordinate.
>
> What advantages do you see in doing it as a subordinate?   Language
> independence is one, I'm sure there are others that I'm not seeing.   But I
> also think it makes the relationship between charms and subordinates
> significantly more complicated, since install of one service could actually
> *require* a subordiate, and we don't yet have any way of managing
> requirements, and I personally would like to avoid needing to do
> charm-dependency graph resolution if at all possible.
>
> --Mark Ramm
>
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