Re: [boost] [Subversion switch] Abandoned sandbox directories/projects?

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-09 05:46:54

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:01 +0200, Andreas Pokorny wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:07:36PM -0400, Doug Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Except that you can only use svn:externals for *directories*, not for  
> > individual files. So, for example, while I could use svn:externals to  
> > bring in directories like "boost/mpi" and "libs/mpi", I could not use  
> > them to bring in "boost/mpi/mpi.hpp". I've looked into svn:externals;  
> > either I missed something big, or they just aren't sufficient to do  
> > what we want.
> 
> This and because one could not have versioned links that point onto a 
> specific version. I think in the boost-sandbox case this isnt that
> much of an issue, but for our needs that was too limiting. 

Right.

> Because of that we were looking at http://venge.net/monotone 

We are not considering any other version control system.

  Cheers,
  Doug