Re: [boost] Using CVS to get Boost work-in-progress

From: Davide Bolcioni (davide_bolcioni_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-15 04:34:46

Phil Richards ha scritto:

> Well, that might be interesting - the obvious thing to do is
> something like
>     cvs -d <whatever> -z3 co boost/boost/regex
> 
> But then, of course, you need boost/boost/regex.h and friends, and
> also boost/libs/regex.  Then you need to scan all the files
> you've just got and make sure the all the #include's from boost/boost
> that are used are pulled down...  Oh, and you'll probably need the
> Boost.Build stuff, too, just in case the jam files in the project use
> new/fixed stuff.

Most of the above might be obtained using CVS 'modules', see for
example here:

   http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/cvsmanual/cvs_157.html

Please note that migration of this feature to Subversion might be
somewhat involved (although still a one-time task), since Subversion
uses a different approach.

Davide Bolcioni
-- 
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