Re: [boost] [sandbox] SVN externals, and large subdirs.

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 11:39:33

Nicola Musatti wrote:
> Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:52 -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Troy, Doug, and others,
>>>
>>> I just moved the boost/sandbox/troy subdir to 
>>> boost/sandbox-branches/troy. This was to fix two problems:
>> Ouch. Some warning would have been nice... that move breaks all of the
>> automatic regression testing Troy has setup (about 5 boxes running
>> continuous builds of Boost via CMake, and submitting those results to a
>> Dart2 server). Troy's away, so it'll be a few days before he can tweak
>> the machines to deal with this change. Not catastrophic, but it'll slow
>> me down a bit :(
> 
> Excuse me, but wouldn't it be better to reserve the sandbox (or whatever other
> repository/area) for candidate libraries and keep them separate from this kind
> of work?
> 
> While we're at it, I understand the desire of better separating each candidate
> library/sandbox project than they were in the SF repository, but wouldn't a
> structure as close as the official Boost tree help avoid having to change one's
> library from "sandbox" style to "official" style?
> 
> I'm asking because I find that there are things in the Boost environment that
> work automatically if you have a boost/your-library - libs/your-library
> structure which are harder to do with a different directory tree.

Yes, that's the structure for the sandbox 
<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSandbox>.

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