Re: [boost] Re: Was [RE: Moving from CVS to Subversion?] Now is "Subversion experiences from the field"

From: Alan Gutierrez (alan-boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-06 06:34:49

* Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]> [2005-02-06 05:01]:
> troy d. straszheim wrote:
> >SVN accomodates this structure quite nicely.  In the spirit of 
> >considering the project structure carefully, here's a few thoughts. 
> >Assume that you have your libraries broken up as in the jakarta example 
> >above.  boost would look something like this:
> >
> >/boost
> >  /boost
> >    /shared_ptr
> >      /trunk
> >      /branches/v1.0
> >      /branches/v1.1
> >    /type_traits
> >      /trunk
> >      /branches/v1.0
> >      /branches/some_other_branch
> >  /libs
> >    /shared_ptr
> >      /trunk
> >      /branches/v1.0
> >    /type_traits
> >      /trunk
> >      /branches/v1.0
> >      /branches/some_other_branch
> >  /tools
> >    /trunk
> >    /branches/v1.0
> >
> >Now that kind of looks like a nightmare, but svn makes it pretty easy to 
> >handle.  A checkout of the trunk should assemble the trunks of each 
> >sublibrary locally in such a way that immediately after the checkout, 
> >you're ready to bjam without additional work.  Named releases should do 
> >something similar, but with various releases of various sublibraries.
> 
> I think this is a good idea, but the problem is that a lot of libraries 
> have code in the boost directory (such as boost/shared_ptr.hpp). They 
> could possibly be changed to just include the implementation from a 
> subdirectory. Would this be worth it? I actually think that might be a 
> good idea anyway.
> 
> This would be very nice for Spirit, which has two active versions.

    How do you propose a person asssembles a boost checkout?

    Currently you simply run a single command to grab all of boost.

    cvs -d [pserver] co [module]

    Everything is pulled.

    With the above, would I not have to checkout...

    svn checkout http://foo.com/boost/shared_ptr/trunk shared_ptr
    svn checkout http://foo.com/boost/type_traits/trunk type_traits

        ... and so on, for every sub-library in boost?

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Alan Gutierrez - alan_at_[hidden]