[PD] svn:externals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:10 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>
>> I don't know about svn --ignore-externals, anyone care to expand on
>> that? (yes, I can RTFM, but I am talking real world experience as
>> related to Pd, which TFM will not tell me)
>
> hmm, "--ignore-externals" ignores external-references when doing a
> checkout/update.
>
> probably a small real-world example can illustrate the use of
> "--ignore-externals".
>
> one of the projects i am involved in, is the CUBEmixer, basically a  
> big
> Pd-application. it depends on a few externals, hosted in the pure-data
> repository.
>
> if you run
> % svn checkout
> https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iem/spatialization/CUBEmixer/ 
> trunk/src/libs
> you will get this directories (1st level):
> libs/
> libs/popup
> libs/folder_list
> libs/hdspm_mixer
> libs/aconnect
> libs/hcs
> libs/iem_ambi
> libs/iem_bin_ambi
> libs/iemgui
> libs/iem_spec2
> libs/iemlib
> libs/iemmatrix
> libs/miXed
> libs/osc
> libs/net
> libs/zexy
>
> however, if you don't care for all the external references, you  
> could do
> instead:
> % svn checkout --ignore-externals
> https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iem/spatialization/CUBEmixer/ 
> trunk/src/libs
> you will only get:
> libs/
> libs/popup
> libs/folder_list
>
> so when using the "--ignore-externals" you can checkout a  
> repository as
> if there were no svn:external properties set in this repo.

If someone will set this up and manage it when things break, then I  
will have no (major) complaints.

>> What about the idea of
>> having a separate section like /pure-data/svn-externals?  If people
>> object to having the imported releases in trunk, I can easily manage
>> that in the pd-extended branch.
>
> to reiterate: i believe that nobody objects to having releases  
> imported.
> the problem is that people do not make releases that could be  
> imported.
>
> and whatever you can easily manage, has to be managed by you; i don't
> want to add another piece of work to your heap.


What about the idea of having a separate section like /pure-data/svn- 
externals?

.hc

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