From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Fri Jan 15 1999 - 14:07:32 EST
Parmelan, Edouard writes:
> > > How about this for a solution..
> > >
> > > 1. Form a CVS branch (call it "BRANCH_LIBTOOL" or whatever)
> > > from the current head of the repository
> > >
> > > 2. Revert the head branch back to the old way
> > >
> > > 3. When/if Alexandre gets the libtool stuff working on BRANCH_LIBTOOL,
> > > and we all approve of doing so, then merge in the improvements.
> > >
>
> I think it's too late and not realistic !
>
> 1. libtool patch is ALSO a automake patch.
>
> 2. Automake removes all old Makefile.in.
> CVS will have lots of conficts for Makefile.in
>
> If you want reverse libtool, you should keep automake.
Wait a minute.. I just want to point out that CVS is not part
of the problem.
It's totally simple to blow away your current tree and check
out another tree on a branch. The two branches are handled
completely independently -- even when files exist on one but
not the other.
Having said that, I'm not arguing we should branch right now.
I'm just saying that CVS works fine (we use it everyday here
at work -- with multiple branches) and the behavior of CVS
is not a valid reason not to branch.
[ By the way, there were some problems long in the past but
these have since been fixed. ]
-Archie
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