On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:05 +0000, Ross Gardler wrote: > Gav.... wrote: ... > >> Right now the repo is in forrest/tools/ivy and is therefore checked out > >> with Forrest svn checkout. This is a temporary thing. It makes it easier > >> for other forrest devs to get involved with the migration to Ivy (a > >> single checkout. However, you are right, we should, eventually, make > >> this repo a completely separate SVN tree. > > > > Ok, not sure how including the repo in the checkout makes things easier > > For devs, may as well have it set up how its supposed to be, this way > > Devs will get first hand usage of it straight away. > > It may just be the way I am working locally. But I find it useful to > have everything in a single checkout whilst I move things from one part > of the tree to another. It makes the SVN commands considerably shorter > an therefore less error prone. > > Like I say, this may be a personal issue. I've set the config files up > with a property to define the location of the shared ivy repo so it is > really simple to move it once the migration is complete.
Yes, I think the result of the migration should be a completely separate SVN tree. This makes moving it to Ivyrep (where IMO all this in the end belongs) much easier. For now I see the benefit from using forrest/tools/ivy. salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java & XML consulting, training and solutions
