[Savannah-hackers] Re: symlink between two projects

[Mathieu Roy]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> said:

> Hi savannah hackers,
> 
> I am considering moving source code development of GNU SASL to
> savannah after noticing that the savannah CVSROOT was available via
> rsync, but there is one obstacle:
> 
> GNU SASL includes a copy of Libstringprep in the sub-directory
> libstringprep/, but Libstringprep is really a separate project (it is
> distributed in GNU SASL for convenience).  Libstringprep is also used
> by Shishi (another project of mine).
> 
> Currently on my own CVS server I have three CVS modules, libgsasl,
> shishi and libstringprep.  In the libgsasl and shishi modules, I have
> a symlink for the libstringprep/ directory to the stringprep CVS root.
> 
> Assuming I move gsasl, shishi and libstringprep development to
> savannah, would it be possible to setup the symlink on savannah to the
> three projects can continue to be developed separately?

In fact, since the three projects are separated, a project need to be
registered for each one.

But CVS does not really fit for symlinks and it can be later poses
compatibility issue. Is maintaining such a symlink absolutely
required?

Regards

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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