Evaluate feasibility of building all packages from source

[nkraetzschmar]

[fwilhe]

One thought I had where I don't know if you considered it before:

We had this 'one monorepo vs one repo per package' discussion, and the argument for a monorepo was that this gives us consistent states for a day, whereas many individual repos don't share the same commit-id:

Have you considered using either git submodules or subtrees? I'm not deep enough in the specifics to be sure they solve our problem, but this might be the right tool for the job? @nkraetzschmar

[nkraetzschmar]

yes, git subtrees would probably be the way to go here along with something like .git/objects/info/alternates to share blobs between multiple checked out branches

[fwilhe]

hm, first time I am hearing of 'git alternates' (Stackoverflow question on that subject)

Interesting, eager to see the result of your tests

[pnpavlov]

@nkraetzschmar please confirm if this can be closed