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alandefreitas / matplotplusplus

Matplot++: A C++ Graphics Library for Data Visualization 📊🗾
https://alandefreitas.github.io/matplotplusplus/
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sub directory not using submodule #322

Open NoPlanNomad opened 1 year ago

NoPlanNomad commented 1 year ago

Feature category

The problem the cmake sub directory documentation tells developers to clone the subject. but might be better to advice them to use a git submodule

The solution I'd like advice to use git submodule with the following command git submodule add https://github.com/alandefreitas/matplotplusplus/ \<submodule directory location>

alandefreitas commented 1 year ago

but might be better to advice them to use a git submodule

I don't think there's much consensus on that at this point.

The best advice could be to not do that at all or describe the requirements properly in a package manager manifest format. But then we miss this form of integration some people might want or end up with conflicts between package managers.

I think the best and smallest improvement on top of that would be FetchContent, which is already supported and documented. But I think the point of that example is to show that add_subdirectory works, regardless of how the directory got there.