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

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2003-11-01 15:17:48 CET

On Nov 1, 2003, at 12:50 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 19:00, Greg Stein wrote:
>> Yesterday, I moved ezt.py into a Subversion repository in its own
>> "mini
>> project". If we wanted to, we could start pulling ezt into the SVN
>> working
>> copy via svn:externals.
>
> I'd be +1 on throwing out svn:externals before we reach 1.0, so I'm -0
> on using it ourselves.
>
> (Yeah, I know we have some people using it, mostly for internal
> references, and they'd be sad. But I'm pretty convinced that keeping
> them happy isn't worth the ick.)

+1.

It's a hack, it didn't work out as well as we'd hoped and it has so
many unforseen problems that it just isn't worth keeping around.
Better to axe it now and do it right in the future.

-garrett

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