Re: better management of php-src/pear and PEAR's future in php

Greg Beaver ha scritto: > Matteo Beccati wrote: >> Not really: it will copy the link, not its content. At least that was my >> experience when I managing releases for an internal project using >> externals. What I usually did was to change the externals property to >> point to a specific revision, e.g. >> >> Property svn:externals set to >> foo -r33165 https://svn.example.com/bar >> >> Depending on the process it can either be done in the branch before >> tagging or on the tag itself. >> >> As a result exporting a tag will consistently retrieve the same version >> of the external resource even years after packaging. > > This sounds easy to forget - is it possible to script this? Not sure how packaging currently works, but I'm pretty sure it is possible to extend whatever we currently have to create an svn tag and do the required changes before exporting for packaging. If needed I can help with it once the whole process is defined. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati OpenX - http://www.openx.org