[Tilesathome] 'stable' t at h version

[Carsten Möller]

Knut Arne Bjørndal schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:52:36AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> If it's stable, just svn-copy it to e.g. \tags\release01
>>> It's just a pointer, not a physical copy, so don't worry.
>>> Maybe this should be anchored in the config file so
>>> one can decide whether he or she wants to render
>>> safely or test an experimantal version.
>> Currently the client only does 'svn up' for its automatic updates.
>> This wouldn't be so simple with each new release being copied into a
>> new directory.  It would then need to be told by the server how the
>> new release is called and do 'svn switch <new_release>'.
>>
>> Another approach could be to have the server tell clients to which rev
>> to update to and clients then do 'svn up -r<new_rev>'.  This has the
>> disadvantage that it makes it impossible to apply a bug-fix to the
>> stable version.
> 
> It would be much simpler and cleaner to have a single stable directory
> that most clients check out, and the clients can then just run svn
> up. If you want to test a branch or anything you just "svn switch" to
> it.
> 
> Yes, this requires merging, but at least with svk it really easy to do
> this.
> 
> 
Why? You can have two tilesAtHome under different parent directories.
Even a structure that I suggested before should work without merging or 
switching versions! One for experimental the other for stable.

Regards

Carsten