On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Martin Cooper <mart...@apache.org> wrote: > >> We need to get past this. Where it lives does *not* have an impact on >> whether it's built together with, or separately from, the rest of S2. >> It can stay where it is and also be built along with, and released as >> part of, S2. There are multiple ways of achieving that, the use of >> externals being one of them. > > Externals are fine for convenience like 'trunks' or 'current' to check > out several things together, but they will cause trouble when you try > to tag a release. Since they are just properties on a directory, they > don't magically get updated when you tag. Definitely not recommended, > at least when releasing with Maven. > > The best way to do this is to have everything together in Subversion > in a directory structure that matches the Maven parent-and-child > module structure.
Good answer. :-) Thanks, Wendy. -- Martin Cooper > (That doesn't mean that it has to be like this forever though. If the > mythical Struts 3 appears and xwork needs to be separate... then we > move it.) > > -- > Wendy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
