David Abrahams wrote:
on Sun Jun 17 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
It could. Usually somebody sends out "Hey check out my such-and-such project" to the mailing list with a url in the sandbox. So you're never trolling through there randomly looking for stuff. I do that all the time.
Can you use Trac search to make it practical even with a different project structure?
To "browse" the projects in Trac you don't need any search at all. You can just browse the tree. But I prefer solutions which don't rely on extra tools. In the same vein I could use a client side repo browser to do the same, tsvn has a rather nice one. But others might not be so lucky. And I still prefer just doing a checkout and browsing around on my local drive both for what projects are there, and randomly reading other peoples code. Yea... I admit it... I'm a code voyeur :-) Ultimately it's much easier to tell people just do: svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox To see the sandbox projects. It's the ease of one stop shopping ;-) Which I think we want, since it improves the general accessibility of the sandbox projects.
And I keep arguing that the common use case for the sandbox, and Boost in general, is precisely the inverse of what you think it is.
I'm not sure anyone should presume to know what the common use case is :)
Good point... I was basing my statement on personal observations. There have been two or three persons who mentioned getting the whole of sandbox as a usual pattern for them. Although I can only specifically remember Victor saying that at this time. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo