On Monday 19 February 2007, Zach Deedler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> RECOMMENDATION
> I highly recommend doing this for OpenSceneGraph and OpenThreads.
> Otherwise, novices of svn will definitely screw something up.

Sorry, I do not agree. If you are novice, you are NOT supposed to use the 
bleeding edge code in the repository anyway. And if you are unable to follow 
the instructions for checking out the code, are you sure you will be able to 
build it?

> We could also create a trunk that externally references 3rdParty libs (if
> they are in svn) such as ReplicantBody, Cal3D, dem, etc, but that will
> probably be too overwelming for some.

Really bad idea - most of these projects do not use SVN but CVS or sometimes 
only snapshots are available. Not to mention that the CVS code for 3rd party 
libs is by far not the most stable and you usually do not want/need it.

Moreover, who is going to maintain it? You will get only a bunch of errors, 
making things even worse whenever some 3rd party developer changes their 
repository structure. Moreover, Linux developers get many of these libs on 
their systems by default, I definitely do not want to check out many 
megabytes of stuff just to get two libraries I need.

Let people think for themselves, they are not babies :)

Jan


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