On 13 Sep 2007, at 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
A cool thing I've been doing recently with the externals feature is using them more like symlinks; so for portaudio you can put the revision you want to stay static in a central location ( e.g. / svnexternals/portaudio) and then set /that/ as the external directory. That way you still have a single copy, but it is replicated to everywhere it is needed.
How well does this really work in production? It's really pretty easy to import code into repositories and manage it there. The idea is cool, but I am not really up for beta testing svn features. There are plenty of Pd bugs to deal with :D. This import feature has been around for 10+ years in CVS at least.
I think it's robust enough, but in practice (in _my_ practice), it can get hard to keep track of them, and I end up doing a lot of svnlook
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