Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Symbolic link between PECL and PHP for OCI8?

[email protected] (Gwynne Raskind) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:27:57 -0500
Newsgroups svn.migration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Jones wrote:
> In CVS, the OCI8 extension is symbolically linked between PECL and the
> PHP ext directory.  This isn't true in SVN.  I.e. In
> http://svn.php.net/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/ there is no
> "oci8" directory.
>
> Unless the release packaging tools are changed to specifically pick up
> OCI8, can the appropriate sym link(s) be created?

There are no symlinks possible in SVN. This is handled using  
svn:externals. The directory will show up when you check out the  
module using the SVN client.

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