Re: [boost] Boost Development Environment proposal

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-04 13:01:58

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:010801c7a6c9$b39badb0$6407a80a_at_pdimov2...
> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>
>> (in directory BOOST_ROOT, say)
>>
>>  iostreams/
>>    include
>>      boost/    # contains only dir 'iostreams'
>>        iostreams/
>>          *.hpp         # notice each project has its own include dir
>>    src/
>>      ...
>>    test/
>>      ...
>>
>>  variant/
>>    include/
>>      boost/   # contains only dir 'variant'
>>        variant/
>>          *.hpp
>>    test/
>>      ...
>
> This works and is a good solution from a testing standpoint... but I don't
> support it for purely selfish reasons; it breaks my "CVS HEAD" use case. 
> :-)
> I'd still like to have a 'trunk' from which I can 'svn update'.

1. Why can't you do it from root?
2. With independent development and svn externals you don't need to do it as 
frequently. you do update in your local directory and it updates all you 
depend on.

Gennadiy