On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 05:16, Fabien.Bouleau_at_ses-engineering.com wrote:
>
>> I am currently facing a problem with Subversion's best usage with my
>> co-workers. We are working on various projects, i.e. we have more than 20
>> Subversion repositories. And of course we are using third-party APIs and
>> tools.
>>
>> According to the documentation, there is the vendor branch development
>> scheme. I have some concern about putting the APIs and third-party tools
>> as
>> such because:
>>
>> 1. The third-party APIs and tools uploaded are binary.
>> 2. They are not intended to be modified but used off-the-shelf.
>> 3. Binaries make the repository grow like Hell
>> 4. Different projects (repositories) may use the same third-party APIs
>> and
>> tools and duplication makes my teeth screech.
>>
>> Therefore I had the following idea: to setup a "third-party" repostory
>> where we would drop the third-party binaries and sources as vendor branch
>> to keep track of the versions (using tags) and refer to it from the
>> various
>> projects using svn:externals.
>>
>> Does that sound correct to you? Any other suggestion?
>
> Sometimes I want to modify vendor projects slightly. To do this, I "svn cp"
> them from their location in the vendor directory to a location in my
> project. Then I modify them. Then later I can use "svn merge" to update my
> copy to a newer upstream release.
>
> But this is only possible if your project is in the same repository as the
> vendor projects. So if you think there's a chance you would ever want to
> slightly modify a vendor project, you should seriously consider keeping your
> vendor projects in the same repository as your own projects, and not in a
> separate repository.
>
>
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Yeh, but the OP said that the third-party libraries are in binary
form. Which implies (to me) no source. So, unless someone wants to
go in an tweak the binaries, I think his scheme makes sense.
If it's not painfully obvious, the 'tweak the binaries was a joke', I
have a special stick to hit people with should that try it.
- Kevin
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