From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-25 09:24:20
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:39:33AM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
> Yes, that's the structure for the sandbox
> <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSandbox>.
>
Whoops. Sorry about mussin' the dirs. Apologies for not having seen
that page before.
So where should that stuff go? I'm accustomed to having "sandbox"
identify a free-form area. 'sandbox-branches' isn't appropriate
either. I think the current sandbox should actually be a subdirectory
of sandbox called "projects".
Here's another thing. The layout of the sandbox currently does not
support independent versioning of projects, e.g., the author of
library A has no way to create a branch/tag of A independently of
library B. You have to branch the entire sandbox. So you can
envision a structure:
projects/
a/
trunk/
branches/
somebranch/
otherbranch/
tags/
somerelease/
otherrelease/
b/
trunk/
branches/
somebranch/
otherbranch/
tags/
somerelease/
otherrelease/
(...)
Where each of the trunk, branches/*/, tags/*/, dirs contain the
standard tree
boost/
a/
libs/
a/
src/
docs/
test/
This enables one to create a directory (in the free-form type sandbox,
wherever that turns out to be) of the sandbox projects you're
watching:
% svn pg svn:externals .
a https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/a/trunk
b https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/b/trunk
c https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/c/trunk
d https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/d/tags/stable-release
Which shows svn:externals in a new light. The use case "I use svn
update to see if there is anything new in the sandbox" works. It also
opens up clean ways to support a all kinds of other use-cases, like "i
want to restrict commit access to certain branches of various projects
because it is release time and I am the release manager". and "I want
to create a distribution of boost containing only certain components
at certain revisions". But that's another story.
Anyhow let me know what you think about moving
sandbox => sandbox/(something).
-t