I was wondering if anyone was using complicated-enough client specs to warrant having them script-generated.

We're in the midst of planning Perforce usage and one of my ideas would entail using client specs that would need to select/deselect individual "library" directories depending on if someone was going to built that library or simply reference an already-built copy.

Anyone else trying something like this?

DETAILS:

We have a directory structure that looks like:

world packages (or libraries) buildch commgr clockdvr ... quite a few more [each package has the following] sources DEVELOP EXPORT

We build in the DEVELOP and EXPORT directories, but in many cases a developer doesn't *need* to rebuild all the packages if they're only affecting one with their changes. Hence, I'd like a client_spec that would not select the objects for the package(s) that the user will re-build (things under DEVELOP and EXPORT). Another catch: there are two files in DEVELOP and EXPORT that *are* needed, so we can't just de-select the entire directory.

Any thoughts, ideas, or pointers are greatly appreciated.