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Re: Variable expansion in subversion properties

From: Wilfredo Sánchez <wsanchez_at_apple.com>
Date: 2005-03-23 20:14:47 CET

   ...and ARCH and OS would be defined where?

   This sort of thing may be better managed by your build process than
by the versioning system.

     -wsv

On Mar 22, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Izzo, Tony wrote:

> I guess you could call this a feature request. What I'm looking at
> specifically is a Subversion repository that I'm using to manage a
> multi-platform project that incorporates third-party binary code,
> which I am storing in the repository using the scheme described in the
> excellent "Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion". Now, the
> binary code I am using will eventually be shared among several
> projects, and therefore it is an excellent candidate to be managed
> using the svn:externals property. However, since we're talking about
> a multi-platform project, the URL to the external projects to be
> pulled when I check out my main project is platform dependent.
>
> For example, my project uses the SQLite database. The Solaris
> binaries for sqlite are stored in
> http://repository/vendor/sqlite/trunk/sparc-sol7/. The Windows
> binaries are stored in
> http://repository/vendor/sqlite/trunk/i586-Win32/.
>
> Therefore, in order to effectively use the svn:externals property in
> this environment, I would have to be able to specify a URL that varies
> with the platform on which the checkout is being performed. IE, I
> would have to be able to set my svn:externals property to something
> like "http://repository/vendor/sqlite/trunk/$(ARCH)-$(OS)/", with ARCH
> and OS being variables that are substituted at checkout time. Thanks.
>
> Tony
>
>
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