Hi ! On Dienstag 18 September 2007, Vladimir Prus wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Just a caution that svn externals are not the panacea they are made out to be.
We've had plenty of those warnings already, but I'm not claiming they're a panacea. I'm only claiming that if you want a directory in your SVN working development copy that has the exact structure of a Boost installation's include directory, svn:externals makes it possible.
And how will you handle header files directly in 'boost' dir? svn:externals only work on directories.
Perhaps we can use the Qt4 approach. Qt4 has a general "include" directory which contains script-generated forward header which simply #include the real header using relativ paths: Example: QTDIR/include/QtCore/qstring.h contains: #include "../../src/corelib/tools/qstring.h" and everything works. Trolltech used symlinks in Qt3 where available and moved the headers on Win32 using some P4 magic, but I think this was a maintenance nightmare. The current solution is better. It would be nice if Boost.Build could then automagically create this forwards instead of using a script... Yours, Jürgen -- * Dipl.-Math. Jürgen Hunold ! Ingenieurgesellschaft für * voice: ++49 511 262926 57 ! Verkehrs- und Eisenbahnwesen mbH * fax : ++49 511 262926 99 ! Lister Straße 15 * juergen.hunold@ivembh.de ! www.ivembh.de * * Geschäftsführer: ! Sitz des Unternehmens: Hannover * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Siefer ! Amtsgericht Hannover, HRB 56965 * PD Dr.-Ing. Alfons Radtke !