Nate Lowrie wrote: > 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?
Yes, if we wanted to do away with being able to see the revision number if subversion is installed... -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-dev/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
