Re: Modules which depend on each other -- how to handle?

[Russ Sherk]

On 4/14/05, Jim.Hyslop <address@hidden> wrote:
> Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> > Hm, no answers so far, okay, let me tell you how I intend to
> > handle it
> > and you tell me if that's good or bad.
> Sorry, I don't know about others, but at this point I have to skim many of
> the messages.
> 
> > However, I hoped CVS has a built-in mechanism for handling project
> > dependencies from the same repository.
> Read up on "ampersand modules" in the documentation (in the CVSROOT/modules
> file). Sounds like that's what you need.

Note: one issue with this method is that you can not specify a
different tag/branch for the widget sub-module when checking out via
the alias.  It will work if you make sure everything is tagged the
same.

> 
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> Jim Hyslop
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