[OSM-dev] svn checkout

[SteveC]

On 10 May 2008, at 09:18, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <200805101543.42646.openstreetmap at ostertag.name>
>          "Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)" <openstreetmap at ostertag.name 
> > wrote:
>
>> On Samstag 10 Mai 2008, Subhodip Biswas wrote:
>>> any solution to it ??
>>
>> We should review each externel and see if it really is needed as  
>> external.
>> Other solutions would be:
>> -  making the oter sources mandatory to be installed.
>> - If the external stuff is pureley osm-related; importing the  
>> external stuff
>>   directly into the osm-repository. This was done with the share/ 
>> map-icons.
>> - More suggestions welcome ...
>
> The problem ones are all rails plugins and are all, to a greater or
> lesser extent, required. I was going to import them into our  
> repository
> but Steve seemed to prefer them as externals.

Yeah but don't listen to me about it

> In theory having them as externals is a neat idea as it keeps them up
> to date, but in practice a lot of them are hosted on not very stable
> servers.

agreed

>
>
> Tom
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Best

Steve