[Savannah-hackers] Re: symlink between two projects

[Mathieu Roy]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> said:
> >
> >> Hi savannah hackers,
> >> 
> >> I am considering moving source code development of GNU SASL to
> >> savannah after noticing that the savannah CVSROOT was available via
> >> rsync, but there is one obstacle:
> >> 
> >> GNU SASL includes a copy of Libstringprep in the sub-directory
> >> libstringprep/, but Libstringprep is really a separate project (it is
> >> distributed in GNU SASL for convenience).  Libstringprep is also used
> >> by Shishi (another project of mine).
> >> 
> >> Currently on my own CVS server I have three CVS modules, libgsasl,
> >> shishi and libstringprep.  In the libgsasl and shishi modules, I have
> >> a symlink for the libstringprep/ directory to the stringprep CVS root.
> >> 
> >> Assuming I move gsasl, shishi and libstringprep development to
> >> savannah, would it be possible to setup the symlink on savannah to the
> >> three projects can continue to be developed separately?
> >
> > In fact, since the three projects are separated, a project need to be
> > registered for each one.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > But CVS does not really fit for symlinks and it can be later poses
> > compatibility issue. Is maintaining such a symlink absolutely required?
> 
> It would create more manual work if the symlink was not present, and
> it would make CVS history less relevant (and as it happens, the
> ChangeLog's are built from the CVS history for these projects so it
> makes the ChangeLog's less relevant too).  If it is difficult to
> maintain a symlink, then don't worry about it.

In fact, I'm not sure at all that cvs will be able to deal with a
symlink. Have previously did this before?



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Mathieu Roy
 
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