Re: Sharing a file between to different modules (A dead-horse topic?)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 13:17:42 (-0600), Casey T. Zednick wrote: ]
> Subject: Sharing a file between to different modules (A dead-horse   topic?)
>
>       I have looked in the CVS book, Google, and the FAQ, but have not found 
> a 
> concrete answer to my problem.

That's because it's not really a CVS problem.  It's a generic software
managment problem.

>       Say I have two modules "web-server," and "ftp-server" and these two 
> projects need to share a file(s) "ATcpStack.c"  What would be the best way 
> to do this?

Create a module for the shared file(s).

Make the module build into a library.

Do release management on the module and install its library on your
build machines.

Link the programs built from the other modules with the library.

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