[Zope-dev] Re: Re: Clarification re: Zope X3.1, 2.8

[Florian Schulze]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:12:51 -0500, Tim Peters <tim.peters at 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.
[snip]
>>  - 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.

Regards,
Florian Schulze