-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florian Schulze wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:12:51 -0500, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
[Tres]
- ZODBGuru uses 'svn rm' to zap the current ZODB on the trunk, replacing it with an 'svn:external' link to your ZODB 3.4 tag; and then tests it (could be an 'svn cp', but I don't see any benefit to maintaining a Zope-specific fork).
My problem. It will certainly be done via 9 "svn switch"s on my local machine first. As explained elsewhere, there are several other possible sources of integration problems here, and I can't know about those before actually trying it. It's possible, e.g., that I'll need to change ZODB 3.4 to worm around them, or switch ZODB to using a different ZConfig, etc. Can't predict here.
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- ReleaseMaker uses 'svn cp' to create the release tag for Zope 2.8a2 (whatever it is being called).
Check.
When you use svn:external, it will be copied as is to the tag, so when the external files change, the files in the tag change as well. So a svn cp would be better I guess.
I don't think so. The point is that each released version of Zope (already) depends on a specific, released version of ZODB; we don't *want* to be copying ZODB into the Zope tree in the repository, because that implicitly creates a fork (i.e., people check into the ZODB copy inside the Zope tree, which is Evil (TM).) When you use 'svn:externals', the referenced package itself is *not* part of the containing checkout; it is managed separately by the svn client (sort of like ESI and page fragments). Tim points out that there are a number of these external dependencies, including ZConfig and zdaemon, which are not directly part of ZODB either: it depends on them in the same way that Zope depends on ZODB. Tres. - -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@zope.com Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCSy2lGqWXf00rNCgRArecAJ9yZDl7hLH+cAO1eYeIePUB6JzbZQCeJjX7 wXM+tv0oKKpcDFpZd6CQPRI= =Cb8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----