On 1-2-2010 12:51, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Monday 01 February 2010, CBy wrote:
>
>> Suppose I have 2 projects, Foo and Bar, which have nothing in common.
>> Because they are unrelated, I decided to give them their own TTB
>> directories under /foo and /bar, respectively. Both projects, however,
>> depend on a Utils project, which has features needed in virtually all my
>> projects. Because Utils is a general purpose project, I also gave it its
>> own TTB directories under /utils. Is that strange reasoning so far?
>>
> No.
>
>
>> Now I want to tag the release of my Foo project, e.g.
>> /foo/tags/release-1.0. Since Foo depends on Utils, I guess I need to tag
>> Utils as well, e.g.
>> /utils/tags/utils-compatible-with-release-1.0-of-foo? Or should I save
>> it to /foo/tags/release-1.0/utils? Or is there no need to tag Utils,
>> because I can use the revision number of /foo/tags/release-1.0 to relate
>> it back to Utils?
>>
> I'd split those up. For both 'foo', 'bar' and 'utils', you should have
> releases. When developing 'foo' and 'bar', you only use previously released
> versions of 'utils'. If you need a new feature in 'utils', add it there with
> all the testcases and documentation and then make a new release of it. In
> those projects referencing 'utils', I would also add checks that the required
> version of 'utils' is provided.
>
Thanks for answering. I am working with NetBeans and have added the
Utils _project_ as a dependency to both Foo and Bar (1 out of 3 ways for
defining dependencies). If I do understand you well, I better define
Utils as a _library_ or _jar_ instead, e.g. utils-1.2.15? In that way,
Foo and Bar depend on a specific version of Utils, and changes to Utils
will not automatically force a recompilation of Foo and Bar. Do you also
recommend adding utils-1.2.15.jar as a resource to the project tree of
Foo and Bar in subversion, e.g. in a lib folder?
> A different way is all three are related but not technically interdependent.
> Then, you can use svn:external to link the utility folder into the other
> project folders. Then, when making a release, you fix that relation, either
> by creating a simple copy or by specifying the revision in the svn:external
> property. In that case, the utilities are not really a fully separate project
> on their own and I wouldn't give them the TTB folders, just a trunk and
> perhaps branches.
>
Can't follow you here. I am afraid I have to do some additional reading
on svn:external.
> Uli
>
>
Received on 2010-02-01 16:01:25 CET