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

From: Phil Richards (news_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-18 14:54:30

On 2006-01-15, Davide Bolcioni <davide_bolcioni_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  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:
[snip]

Yes, but the problem is that somebody has to create (and maintain) all
the appropriate modules (one per boost library, at the very least).  It
*might* be possible to automate it (and possibly this could be reused
for Subversion)... but I wonder if it isn't more effort than it's worth?

phil
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