[boost] SVN repo structure... [was: Subversion structure in KDE]

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-30 16:29:05

Ping... Any comments on this? It would be nice if people voice some 
comments on this subject now. Instead of later when we would have to 
move a bunch of directories around.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [boost] Subversion structure in KDE
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:54:20 -0500
From: Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>

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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