Re: [boost] Review Queue Needs Attention

Subject: Re: [boost] Review Queue Needs Attention
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-11 05:26:02

On Friday 11 December 2009 13:20:53 Tim Blechmann wrote:

> >>>> not sure, whether i understand it correctly. if i check out trunk and
> >>>> sandbox/mylib to myboost/ ... then myboost would contain 2 independent
> >>>> svn checkouts ... does `svn diff' show the diff with trunk or with
> >>>> sandbox/mylib then?
> >>>
> >>> "svn diff" without arguments will show difference in 'main boost'
> >>> "svn diff boost/mylib libs/mylib" will show the difference for the specified
> >>> library -- but this is probably obvious.
> >>>
> >>> Is this a problem and what alternatives do you suggest?
> >>
> >> well, both checkouts wouldn't be synchronized ... 
> >> a distributed version
> >> control system would fit for this use case way better ... i don't want
> >> to start a scm flamewar, but for me svn appears to be very limited
> >> compared to tools like git ...
> > 
> > We could probably indeed start a nice flamewar on version control, but before
> > we go that route, I wanted to double check. Is this inconvenience of
> > combining sanbbox libraries with main release the primary issue with the current
> > organization of sandbox? Or there are other issues? Could you list them?
> > 
> > Because if it's the only issue, we're doing pretty well ;-)
> 
> consider the following use case:
> boost (upstream) contains boost/memory_order.hpp
> my_lib uses boost/memory_order.hpp
> 
> boost (upstream) doesn't define memory_order_consume, my_lib requires
> memory_order_consume to be defined in boost/memory_order.hpp

And -- what version of what does contain those function there?

> so both repository checkout clash ... using one merged git repository,
> this is no issue (possibly the same with mercurial or bazaar)

Probably the same using SVN. If somebody has a branch called 'memory_order_with_cool_functions',
and you have branch called 'tim', then it's not clear to me why you cannot merge
relevant commits from 'memory_order_with_cool_functions' to 'tim'.

Is this a real use case? If so, maybe you can point me at URLs and we'll check
in detail?

- Volodya