Re: [jamboost] Re: Adding python port

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-07 02:08:05

On Sunday 06 February 2005 18:22, Rene Rivera wrote:

> > there seems to be no
> > directory named v2/python on the main branch. To get the directory I
> > need to switch the whole v2 dir to the python branch but that gets me
> > back to the BOOST_BUILD_PYTHON_BASE since before the branch was created.
> > So how do I keep track of the HEAD of everything and latest PYTHON at
> > the same time? Wouldn't the python directory have to be on the HEAD
> > branch as well as on the PYTHON in order for it to work? Thanks.
>
> You can "checkout" that particular directory based on the branch tag.
> When you do an update at the top level boost-root it will update based
> on the sticky branch tag for that directory and the head for everything
> else.

To be more specific, running

cvs up -r BOOST_BUILD_PYTHON python

in the "v2" directory does the trick.

- Volodya