Trent Nelson wrote: > >> I'll be happy to push the above into a page under httpd.apache.org/ >> dev as "here's how to build HEAD for testing" if folks think it >> useful. Or I may put it on my blog. > > I find that svn externals can provide a useful alternative to the > approach you've mentioned:
Externals are evil. They are *very* prone to mis-tagging. A tag with externals pointing back to another leaf of a trunk are WORTHLESS. Several projects have been guilty of this. Also we don't require you to grab the latest apr... httpd trunk (so far) builds with apr 1.2.x. Someday it will require 1.3.x but that will be after at least 1.3.0 has shipped and can be installed. Which means - grab apr trunk *if you want*. I keep apr-0.9/1.2/1.x trunk checked out (ditto -util/-iconv) and just symlink from within httpd-2.0/2.2/2.x trunk. Since checkouts into the subdir don't update very well, I just svn up httpd-* apr-* from my root. It makes it much easier to move patches from version to version of our 'srclib's.
