[OpenAFS-devel] A crypto layer for OpenAFS

[Jeffrey Altman]

Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On 9 Oct 2009, at 14:58, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>
>> To make it incredibly clear that our copy of hcrypto is in fact
>> readonly and not part of the OpenAFS distribution, I would almost
>> prefer that we create a separate repository for the third party
>> components and pull them in as sub-modules from that git repository.
> 
> The only issue with using submodules is that you need to do more than
> just a simple git clone to download the whole source tree, and more than
> just a fetch to update it. That said, there are the benefits you note in
> the separate repository approach.
> 
> Simon.

If you can enumerate the additional steps required that would be
appreciated so that the community that judge whether the additional
burden will be too onerous.

Thanks.

Jeffrey Altman