Re: newbie question

[Derek R. Price]

Noel L Yap wrote:

> I wouldn't use CVS as an install tool.  IMHO, it would be much cleaner if you
> checked out your stuff into a temporary directory, then installed from there
> (possibly as easy as a recursive copy of everything minus the CVS
> subdirectories).

I might use CVS as my installer, as it works well enough, but I'd probably use
'cvs export' to do it.  Of course if I was doing anything remotely complex, even
chmods, I'd probably do as Noel says and wrap the install in a script or
makefile.

Derek

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