[Tilesathome] 'stable' t at h version

[Matthias Julius]

Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> writes:

> 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.

When each stable release ends up as a new directory in /tags all
clients need to switch to that to update.

Matthias