Hi Jens, On 11/1/07, Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:48:34AM -0700, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
You should be able to access the overload implementation at http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload/trunk -- this version is derived from Marco Ceccheti's implementation, with certain changes for complying with some Boost rules about filenames (length, etc.) and directory layout.
Are you sure the directory layout is OK? I would not expect to see trunk in http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload but the content of it. Branches belong to http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox-branches so http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/<project> should always contain the trunk version without need to create an additional directory called "trunk". At least the logging library doesn't use "trunk".
I'm talking about the directory layout as far as the root of the project is concerned. This follows the convention of Boost libraries that can easily be 'untarred into the Boost Root directory, and play nice with the other boost libraries'. As far as using trunk is concerned, I haven't seen any rules as to how a self-contained development environment can be maintained for the whole sandbox, which all the other libraries will have to follow. As far as I can tell (or at least as far as subversion goes), a branch is basically a copy of a source tree in another directory. There are no hard-coded conventions, and I don't see one for the sandbox.
Let me summarise: Instead of http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload/trunk/boost I would expect http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/overload/boost.
If I'm wrong other projects should maybe restructered for consistency.
I don't think either of us are wrong or right. I think it's a matter of preference as far as the sandbox is concerned -- and on a per-project basis, I think it should be alright to have different approaches. After all, all the stuff there isn't official by an Boost standard IIRC.
The above announcement should be very a welcome change for you. I hope this helps!
It does, thanks!
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