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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:37:57 +0200
From: Daniel Fagerstrom <danielf@nada.kth.se>
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Subject: Re: [RT] Are svn externals a good idea?
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We should only use externals to projects with own release cycles. The 
idea of breaking out the blocks from trunk was to start considering them 
as separate projects with separate release cycles.

The when we do a "compound" release of Cocoon core together with all 
blocks, all the externals in the taged compound release should point to 
tagged releases of the blocks.

This certainly isn't our current practice. But I think we need to start 
considering the blocks like separate projects sooner rather than later. 
Its time that we stop thinking about Cocoon as one huge beast where 
everything is connected to everything else. First it isn't, and second 
it doesn't scale at all.

Thinking more about it: with the wild card includes for configurations 
and sitemaps, is there still anything that prevent us from having binary 
releases?

/Daniel

Bart Molenkamp wrote:

>Sorry, hit the send button too early...
>
>You can specify a revision within the svn:external property. Something
>like (got this sample from the svn book):
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>third-party/skins/toolkit -r21 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/skin-maker
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>So I think, when you've labelled cocoon 2.1.8, you should change the
>svn:externals property in that tag one more time an let it point to the
>CForms block with the same revision number as the revision that
>committed the tagging of version 2.1.8, right?
>
>Bart.
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>>>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>Van: Carsten Ziegeler [mailto:cziegeler@apache.org]
>>>Verzonden: vrijdag 23 september 2005 11:49
>>>Aan: Cocoon-Dev
>>>Onderwerp: [RT] Are svn externals a good idea?
>>>
>>>I'm just wondering if svn externals are a good idea wrt to
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>versioning.
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>>>I just had to checkout an older version of 2.1.8-dev and checked out
>>>that particular revision. Now unfortunately, the jcr block (and now
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>>the
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>>>forms block) is linked into the tree using a svn external. And
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>>although
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>>>I checked out an old version of the cocoon tree, I get the latest
>>>version from the jcr block. So it's not that easy to get the exact
>>>version of the whole tree. Or is there an easy way?
>>>
>>>And what does this mean wrt to tagging a release (which is a copy of
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>>the
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>>>source tree)?
>>>
>>>Carsten
>>>--
>>>Carsten Ziegeler - Open Source Group, S&N AG
>>>http://www.s-und-n.de
>>>http://www.osoco.org/weblogs/rael/
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