[PD-dev] repository layout: tags

[Luke Iannini (pd)]

Well, we have been using that feature in production in our web-startup for
over a year and a half, if it is any consolation?  Why do you say it is
"beta-testing"?  SVN is not exactly a bleeding edge technology at this point
; ); the externals feature has been there since at least 2002 judging by the
changelog.
Cheers
Luke

On 9/13/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
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> > >> Does SVN handle this differently?
> > >
> > > yes and now.
> > > yes: you don't _have_ to create a tag and a branch whenever you
> > > import code.
> > > no: you can import code that is maintained elsewhere into a branch,
> > > a tag, the trunk (or just any other directory)
> > > yes: svn is able to handle references to external (svn!)
> > > repositories (which imo is better than blindly importing anything
> > > useful)
> >
> > That sounds horrendous to me, then you are forced to track their
> > changes.  Could you imagine if we tracked portaudio like that with
> > Pd?  We'd spent half our dev time fixing breakage caused by portaudio
> > changes.  It's a very useful thing to keep code static until you are
> > ready for change.
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> You can set a specific revision to reference, so that this does not
> happen.
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> A cool thing I've been doing recently with the externals feature is using
> them more like symlinks; so for portaudio you can put the revision you want
> to stay static in a central location ( e.g. /svnexternals/portaudio) and
> then set /that/ as the external directory.  That way you still have a single
> copy, but it is replicated to everywhere it is needed.
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> How well does this really work in production?  It's really pretty easy to
> import code into repositories and manage it there.  The idea is cool, but I
> am not really up for beta testing svn features.  There are plenty of Pd bugs
> to deal with :D.  This import feature has been around for 10+ years in CVS
> at least.
>
>
> .hc
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> Cheers
> Luke
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