Re: [boost] Subversion structure in KDE

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-27 18:54:20

Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> KDE is also a large project with separate subprojects. I thought it
> might be a good idea to look at their structure.
[snip]
> Here is the repository: http://websvn.kde.org/
[snip]
> How about a trunk with the two subdirectories Boost and Sandbox? The
> Boost directory would contain libraries that are to be part of the
> next official Boost release, and the Sandbox other libraries.

If I'm understanding you, and the KDE docs, correctly, what you want is 
something like(**):

[boost-svn]
   boost
     stable (full boost tree here)
     devel (full boost tree here)
     branches
       my_branch (full boost tree here)
       cmake_a (full boost tree here)
       cmake_b (full boost tree here)
     tags
       boost_1_33_1 (full boost tree here)
       boost_1_34_0 (full boost tree here)
   sandbox
     devel
       xml (partial boost tree here)
       explore  (partial boost tree here)
     branches
       xml_b0 (partial boost tree here)
       explore_b0  (partial boost tree here)
     tags
       xml_for_review (partial boost tree here)
       explore_for_review  (partial boost tree here)

That seems like a reasonable arrangement to me. It has the beauty of 
being easy to explain, and it's not too far off from what we have now. 
The one drawback I can see is that one common case, of updating 
boost/stable and boost/devel can't be done in one go. But I think that's 
a reasonable aspect to give up (not that we had it in the first place) 
since hopefully working with both at the same time will be an infrequent 
task.

(**) I'm ignoring the website tree because it's not the same kind of 
beast. Since it only has to deal with two versions, and doesn't need tags.

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