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Re: Shared libraries and Projects in CVS
From: |
Ian Davies |
Subject: |
Re: Shared libraries and Projects in CVS |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:54:26 +0100 |
Thanks for the response, James.
What is lump? Is it a CVS thing or does it rely on the development
environment. Also, can you give me any pointers on what to search for as I
do not yet know the correct terminology - I either get millions of hits or
none.
Thanks,
Ian.
"James Youngman" <address@hidden> wrote in message
news:address@hidden
> "Ian Davies" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I am a newly appointed Software Development Manager and am trying to
bring
> > order to a previously chaotic system. CVS is key to my approach.
> >
> > I can version the source code of a project and the source code of a
shared
> > library with CVS separately without problems. What I would like to know
is
> > if there is any way to tie the two together so that I can regress to
> > previous versions of a project that may only work with a previous
version of
> > a shared library.
>
> Put the two things in two separate modules, and tie them together in
> the modules file like this :-
>
> lump: &projcode &sharedlib
>
> Obviously you will be able to provide more descriptive module names.
> You can then associate mutually-compatible versions of the two things
> by tagging the "lump" module.
>
> Consult the mailing list archive for more detailed discussion of these
> issues - it comes up regularly.
>
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> James Youngman
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