[PD-dev] svn:externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>>> Since then I realised that svn:externals is indeed a not-so-good  
>>> idea. Today I removed my svn:externals link and switched to a  
>>> regular copy using svn import.
>> could you elaborate on why you now find that svn:externals are a  
>> not-so-good idea?
>
> Because what if someone wants to make a branch out of all of the  
> stuff in pd/externals ... then pd/externals/gridflow won't be  
> branched, and that person won't be able to patch it. Well, there  
> are already branches like that, and the same applies to tags. I  
> thought that this is what Hans wanted me to understand but he  
> didn't explain it. In any case, this is what I eventually  
> understood from his original comment on svn:externals.

That's a good reason, but I didn't realize it before.  Thanks for  
pointing it out.  Also, using svn:externals means that to do  
operations on source, all of the repositories have to be working fine  
in order for it to work.  For example, on svn:externals link had a  
invalid certificate, causing an error which broke the auto-build.   
Ok, so you can accept the cert permanently.  But since it was a self- 
generated cert, there is a good chance of it being regenerated.

This adds a source of problems without a whole lot of benefit, IMHO.

.hc

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