Ross Gardler wrote: > Forrests SVN checkout is too large. One way of making it smaller is by > moving the eclipse tools directory out of trunk (10Mb). > > Since devs working on the eclipse tools do so independantly of Forrest > this makes sense. In fact, in the new instructions I am writing for > setting up the eclipse platform I am recomending that the tools be > checked out separatly anyway (it just makes sense for Eclipse to do this). > > So, I would like to move the Eclipse tools from: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk/ > > to: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/tools/eclipse/trunk > > Any ojections?
Not from me. We have got to find ways to shed the weight. Plugins is the next thing to investigate. I am not sure if this is related ... Does someone understand what Cocoon did with their SVN using svn:externals? They separated the blocks away from the core. Does that technique help us? -David
