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Re: use svn:externals for build/generator/ezt.py?

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2003-10-31 04:56:26 CET

On Oct 30, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Russell Yanofsky wrote:

> Greg Stein wrote:
>> ...
>> Today, we provide access to the SVN repository on port 80, port 81,
>> and via SSL. The non-port-80 access points are primarily to get
>> around broken proxies [which don't know DAV]. To a lesser extent,
>> they are used to circumvent network security policies on users'
>> (corporate) networks. The svn.webdav.org repository is only
>> available on port 80 which might pose problems for some folks.
>
> What is the problem here? Is it that svn:externals won't let users
> configure
> a port number or that svn.webdav.org can't listen on other ports?

The URL would be hardcoded in the svn:externals property, so we'd have
to pick a URL scheme (http or https) and port number.

>> The same issue will come up around referencing an external rcsparse,
>> and apr(util) when they move into an SVN repository.
>>
>> One benefit is that we track the changing "upstream" components,
>> although I don't expect a large rate of change for anything but
>> apr(util), so this benefit might not be large.
>
> If using svn:externals for APR would give subversion it's own private
> copy
> of the library, is this desireable? I've just been using the APR that
> comes
> with apache...

It'd certainly be nice, if APR used Subversion ;-)

-garrett

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