[darcs-users] packages + revision control: is that possible?

[Ben Coburn]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 09:16, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been googling around, but found no satisfactory solution so far.
> I would like to have a repository holding multiple packages/modules,
> but as opposed to svn, where each "module" is a separate folder, I
> need multiple packages/modules to contain files in the same folder.
>
> [...]
>


This sounds a lot like something I've been working on -- a wrapper  
around darcs to automate and enforce modular repository semantics.  
Modules are defined as a regular expression match on repository file  
paths so it can be quite flexible.

The wrapper is designed for use on application repositories with  
clearly defined submodules. Ideally this means a well defined  
interface and one or more concrete implementations, though  
documentation can easily be considered a module as well. This should  
give one the ability to pull or unpull concrete implementations at  
will by pulling or unpulling their respective "modules". It also can  
apply tags at the module level (not just the whole repository) and  
use those tags to "update" modules to the latest "stable" tag, or  
current state repository state.

Anyway, it's not ready for release, but I plan to use it myself... so  
it should be finished real soon now. ;-)


Regards, Ben Coburn