I think the individual components are fine. It seems to me that the second part where you make a mega package is more of a build/release issue then a souce control issue. Could you just put a make file underneath proj/rel/1.1 that is smart enough to build the project from the component's depots?

It seems a shame to develop independent components and then to mush them together just to get a common version number.

Regards, C. Helck

-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Lewit, Mike Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:59 PM To: 'perforce-user at perforce.com' Subject: [p4] depot structure question

I have a project with 3 components: CORE, JA & JB. I want to release each individually and release the entire system under one version#. I came up with the following structure for the project:

//products/proj/CORE/main .../CORE/rel .../rel/1.0 .../JA/main .../JA/rel .../rel/1.0

.../JB/main .../JB/rel .../rel/1.0 .../rel/1.1 .../proj/rel .../rel/1.0

.../1.0/CORE/1.0 .../1.0/JA/1.0 .../1.0/JB/1.0

.../rel/1.1 .../1.1/CORE/1.0 .../1.1/JA/1.0 .../1.1/JB/1.1

Project rel 1.0 is made up of core 1.0, JA 1.0 and JB 1.0. I rev'd JB to 1.1 and now released proj rel 1.1. Does this make sense? What would be the best way to create the ../project/rel tree? Do I manually branch each components rel tree into the .../proj/rel tree or do I sync everything to my build drive and then do a "Add to source control" to the .../project/rel tree?

Thanks, Mike

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