Re: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from [Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]]


Subject: Re: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE abiword-dev@abisource.com: Non-member submission from [Pavel Roskin ]]
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 12:32:14 CST


At 11:05 AM 3/1/01 -0600, Sam TH wrote:
>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:57:35 -0500 (EST)
>From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
>Subject: Please remove expat/lib/expat.h
>
> [...]
>
>Also please consider listing all the top-level directories on CVS in
>CVSROOT/modules and adding aliases for some collections of those
>directories, to make it easier to understand what to check out initially.
>For example:
>
>abi abi
>abidistfiles abidistfiles
>expat expat
>psiconv psiconv
>unixfonts unixfonts
>wv wv
>abi-unix -a abi abidistfiles expat psiconv unixfonts wv
>abi-windows abi abidistfiles expat psiconv wv
>
>and so on. The GNOME project extensively uses CVSROOT/modules on its CVS
>server.

This sounds promising. Does it mean that new Abi hackers could just check
out a single platform-specific alias to get all the sources they'd need?

How would it interact with our current Bonsai setup? It's never been clear
to me how the cvs modules work there.

Paul
motto -- wow, can CVS do that too?



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