[cvsnt] "Floating" Tags?

[Czarnowski, Aric]

On the subject of floating tags I could not find an equivalent when we
moved to CVSNT either.  PVCS has this concept, BTW, and once you get in
the habit of floating tags it is very hard to switch out of.

Modules do not work well because, well, modules are very complicated.
That's why we now have modules2 which is also somewhat complicated.
Also, modules are an admin level concept and not an end user tool like
tags are.

My guess is it would be hard to implement floating tags in CVSNT but I
can garauntee there are several development groups migrating from PVCS,
at least, that would transition more easily and comfortably if CVSNT had
floating tags as well.  I think this would be hard mostly for CVS
cultural reasons - you don't often set a tag to a specific file revision
in CVSNT explicitly but under PVCS we did this a lot.

Having said all that, the way we deal with grouping files together for
distribution is packaging scripts that run by hand or during nighly
builds.  These run over a checked out sandbox of any branch and collect
up a seperate copy of each file in whatever new directory tree is
required by the package recipient.  This forces us to make mods to the
scripts for each file add/remove on each branch instead of a floating
tag simply following the revision line for each file but at least it
puts control back in the developer side of the fence.

HTH,
Aric

Aric Czarnowski
Unimax Systems Corporation
612-204-3634