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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Matt Schulte <schultetwin1@gmail.com>
Cc: T R <trebele@outlook.com>,
	"elfutils-devel@sourceware.org" <elfutils-devel@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Inquiry about Development Features and Integration of Source Code Version Control Systems
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:07:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240410160715.GC30102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJqzY_5orQtsj=EKyS+fkDr=7UXbp8HRP3sS5_J60ZZ-TGZsKQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi -

> Support for reading source code directly from a code hosting service
> (such as GitHub) has been supported for years by Microsoft via
> SourceLink[1]. [...]

Thanks for that reminder.  Yeah, eventually that could be an alternate
way.

> [...]
> > Can you explain under what situations you think this would be helpful?
> 
> I can only think about situations that involve closed source software.
> In my experience, companies shipping closed source software have
> restrictions about where source code can be placed.

i.e., a situation where even an internal debuginfod instance cannot be
trusted with the source code, but some version control system can be?


- FChE


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-10 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-10  5:57 T R
2024-04-10 14:26 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2024-04-10 16:01   ` Matt Schulte
2024-04-10 16:07     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2024-04-11  4:55       ` Matt Schulte

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