Re: [boost] Organizing a large project with svn:externals (Was: Boost Development Environment proposal)

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-18 02:05:49

troy d straszheim wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:04:33PM +0200, Henrik Sundberg wrote:

>> Internals and non intuitive commit (and perhaps meta-meta-problems)?
>> Are you satisfied with the use of externals overall?
> 
> Very.  I wouldn't propose it otherwise.  

One disadvantage of externals, which you might not have run into yet, is 
that they become invalid when you rename a project. For example you have:

dataclasses 
http://code.icecube.wisc.edu/svn/projects/dataclasses/releases/B01-12-00

Say if the dataclasses project gets renamed to dbclasses you would have 
to go find all the externals and change them to the new name:

dataclasses 
http://code.icecube.wisc.edu/svn/projects/dbclasses/releases/B01-12-00

And you would also have to consider for each one whether to rename the 
subdir name:

dbclasses 
http://code.icecube.wisc.edu/svn/projects/dbclasses/releases/B01-12-00

So either you've never renamed projects in your set up, or you have 
broken releases ;-)

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