14 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] VSS-like "Links" in Perfoce?
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Tim Henrion18 Sep 2000 05:40 
Steve Bennett18 Sep 2000 07:29 
Jeff A. Bowles18 Sep 2000 10:13 
Jeff A. Bowles18 Sep 2000 10:44 
Russell Jackson18 Sep 2000 10:50 
Jeff A. Bowles18 Sep 2000 10:58 
Tim Henrion18 Sep 2000 13:19 
Steve Bennett18 Sep 2000 13:59 
Russell Jackson18 Sep 2000 14:08 
Richard Brooksby18 Sep 2000 14:09 
Steve Bennett18 Sep 2000 14:09 
George Van Treeck18 Sep 2000 21:45 
Berend de Boer19 Sep 2000 13:46 
Richard Brooksby19 Sep 2000 14:26 
Subject:[p4] VSS-like "Links" in Perfoce?
From:Richard Brooksby (rb@ravenbrook.com)
Date:09/18/2000 02:09:14 PM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

At 2000-09-18 16:20 -0400, Tim Henrion wrote:

The whole point I'm trying to accomplish here is to avoid having to use any type of view mapping other than standard single line mapping. Think of it this way: I've got a bunch of source code. Some of that source code, scattered around my depot, together forms an SDK. I'd like to create and SDK directory that contains links to all the appropriate source files. When someone needs to get the SDK, the just sync up to the appropriate directory. No special views or other bizzare tricks. Just sync and go.

If you have an SDK made of scattered stuff then you might consider maintaining that SDK as a branch of that stuff. In other words, create a branch spec which pulls the SDK together and keep it up to date by integrating each time the original stuff is stable. This would also give you control over the SDK version separate from the original material, so that you could, for example, have known working versions of the SDK.

I think we could also do with some advice about how to make the view mapping method simple and easy for users. It seems to me that this is mainly an ease of use issue, and you don't believe that links are fundamentally a better way of managing your sources. Am I right?