Inquiry about Development Features and Integration of Source Code Version Control Systems

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Apr 10 16:07:15 GMT 2024


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



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