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Re: Patterns for components based projects

From: David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:26:04 -0500

You may want to study the Subversion book at http://svnbook.com and
look at the chapter on file properties -- specifically the
svn:externals property.

What you want to do is put your third party components into their own
directory structure. We have our repository setup like this:

http://subversion/dev/modules/...
http://subversion/dev/externals/...
http://subversion/dev/tools/...

The "modules" directory is for our software, and the "externals"
directory is for the third party tools we may use.

When you want to include a third party tool on a particular project,
you add on the svn:externals property on that directory. The value of
that property is the URL of the directory in your externals area. For
example, the property might look like this::

http://subversion/dev/externals/rougewave/math/tags/3.2

This would be the directory for the RougeWave Math libraries (version 3.2).

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Steven Woody <narkewoody_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have two or three projects developed concurrently. These projects
> have some aspects similar to each other, hence they share a collection
> of public components each of which gets a dedicated top source
> directory for its own. I know in svn there is a mechanism sounds
> something like 'external links', and I want to ensure from you experts
> that this is exactly what I am looking for. Actually, I think the
> challenge is after project Pa and project Pb shared component Cx,
> there exits situation one day that Pa find it has to modify/improve
> Cx to some extends to fits it own needs and still don't want to break
> Pb which is in the meantime using original version of Cx. More
> difficult than this, Cx still has a chance to find it need to
> improve/modify Cx too. So my question is:
>
> 1. How to allow above development requirements to be fulfilled while
> get all my code version-controlled and well managed?
> 2. After Pa and Pb changed Cx, Is it still easy to me to let these
> chances merge back and release a more recent version of Cx for further
> use?
> 3. How exactly to use the 'external link' feature of SVN when in every
> step of above process?
>
> Thanks advance.
>
> -
> narke
>
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David Weintraub
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Received on 2009-01-13 18:27:11 CET

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