[Biococoa-dev] BioCocoa Applications

[Charles Parnot]

SVN is much simpler than CVS, once you understand more of the basics.  
It is fairly easy to grasp those concepts. I really recommand reading  
the free SVN book online, particularly the parts explaining the  
'philopsophy' of the system.

By convention, and because it works well this way, you want to have a  
'trunk', a 'tags' and a 'branches' directory for each project. The  
current svn tree is:

BioCocoa/
	trunk/
	tags/
	branches/

I would not recommand changing that too much (though svn makes that  
easy, it might still be confusing when going back to older  
revisions). Since the trunk directory contains all the BioCocoa  
framework code directly, with no other subdirectory, I would not  
recommand having the apps in there.

Instead, I would suggest adding an additional directory under the  
root, called Applications:

BioCocoa/
	trunk/
	tags/
	branches/
	Applications/

Then, you have these 2 options:


*Option 1:

BioCocoa/
	trunk/
	tags/
	branches/
	Applications/
		MyApp/
			trunk/
			tags/
			branches/
		YourApp/
			trunk/
			tags/
			branches/

*Option 2:

BioCocoa/
	trunk/
	tags/
	branches/
	Applications/
		trunk/
			MyApp/
			YourApp/
		tags/
			MyApp/
			YourApp/
		branches/
			MyApp/
			YourApp/

I would have a slight preference for Option 1, but it really does not  
matter that much, and there is no technical reason that I foresee why  
one option is better than the other. You might give it more thoughts,  
and maybe there would be some technical reasons why one option is  
better than the other.

Again, I recommand following the svn convention because: (1) it  
works, (2) anybody familiar with svn will be instantly confortable.

hope that helps!

charles





On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Scott Christley wrote:

>
> I agree as well.  The question though is how to set up the SVN  
> repository to support this properly.  I'm more familiar with CVS  
> than SVN, I understand the concepts of branches and tags but it is  
> not clear to me how this works with SVN.  I need to read up on this.
>
> Preferably people should be able to SVN the BioCocoa core framework  
> without getting other stuff; likewise with the applications, they  
> should be able to SVN either all the applications or just specific  
> ones they are interested in.  Any ideas on how to set up the  
> repository?  Would the current repository need to be re-structured  
> to support separate applications?
>
> Thinking with my CVS mind, I would consider making the repository  
> look something like this:
>
> trunk/
> 	BioCocoa/
> 	Applications/
> 		MyApp/
> 		YourApp/
>
>
> thanks
> Scott
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Charles Parnot wrote:
>
>>>
>>> What do people think about creating a source repository with  
>>> community donated applications that use BioCocoa?
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that having the BioCocoa library is great, but still  
>>> people are required to write their own applications on top of  
>>> it.  Some could be sample applications, but I suspect that others  
>>> would be useful full-fledged apps that maybe focus on specific  
>>> area of analysis, etc.  I certainly have some end-user oriented  
>>> tools that I would like to provide, but don't have anyplace to  
>>> put them except create a new project somewhere.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Scott
>>
>> I agree that there is nothing better than some real-world app  
>> using the framework, to get the framework in the best shape. A lot  
>> of design and optimizations in the framework will then be  
>> triggered by real issues in real apps, not just what we think  
>> could be better.
>>
>> These apps can also serve as extra testing tools, in addition to  
>> the automated tests that are built in the framework itself.
>>
>> charles
>>
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