On 6/26/07, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nate Lowrie wrote:
> > Your good now...Just out of curiousity, what purpose do these external
> > fetches serve and can we get rid of them?
>
> The purpose is to be able to link to other libraries maintained in other
> svn repositories, so that dependencies get pulled in.
>
> I agree it's kind of annoying that subversion always checks for the
> externals.
>
> I believe the only remaining externals definition is the _daborevs one.
> The purpose of this is to be able to provide a revision number in the
> version string, regardless of whether subversion is installed or not.

But couldn't we hard code it for the tags since they are always the
same revision number?

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