[Zope-CMF] RFC: Removing svn:externals from buildouts

yuppie y.2011 at wcm-solutions.de
Fri Mar 25 13:03:06 EDT 2011


Tres Seaver wrote:
> I went to investigate fixing the SourceForge / setuptools build failures
> this monring and again bumped up against the use of svn:externals in the
> buildouts.  My preferred mode for dealing with the Zope SVN server is
> via bzr-svn, but the svn:externals defeat that pattern.
>
> Since we are now using mr.developer anyway to pull in other
> dependencies, could we go ahead and switch to using it for all the
> checkouts?

+0

Don't know who uses mr.developer for CMF development. I added that 
configuration recently and only on trunk.

I still have some trouble using mr.developer in Eclipse. But if it works 
for everybody else and the nightly tests don't break I'm fine with 
replacing the svn:externals.

Cheers, Yuppie


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