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3. Override directories
Need to modify the way we use SCons to make override directories possible. Some of Joanne's existing GoGui code assumes that this ability exists. The plan is to support one over-riding directory. Leon states he can live with that. That override directory may contain any number of packages. The fix will come in the SConstruct files, which while not pretty, will be invisible to most users.
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There are several places where version numbers are used. The SConscript files have a version number. When GoGui checks out a package, there is no longer a version subdirectory. \ [Clarification: In the initial checkout of a container and its subpackages there is no sign of package version in the directory structure. It is in the SConscript file, however, and GoGui displays it. If you check out another copy of a package, either tagged or HEAD, into the same container, it must be assigned a directory which *does* include versioning, e.g. xmlBase-03-04-05. When it comes time to build, if either xmlBase or xmlBase-03-04-05 is selected, only the latter will be built because of the way the names are sorted. This is disconcerting if not downright misleading. GoGui will do a better job in a future release, probably by disabling build and clean on packages (like xmlBase in the situation described) which will not in fact be built or cleaned. Joanne\]
GoGui is available on RHEL4 and for Windows. It was suggested that we could have a GoGui demonstration on Wednesday.
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