archives & nested trees

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 16:48 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > It occurs to me that one common use of nested-by-reference trees, and
> > archives, will be to have a common library in the same archive as
> > several users. If the interpretation of .bzr-child-locations was
> > performed relative to the branch, not the working dir, then paths
> > like ../../libs/libfoo would allow references inside the same archive,
> > and avoid some need to provide absolute urls.
> > 
> > John - what do you think?
> 
> I definitely think that there will be cases of using a shared library in
> an archive. And it would be nice to be able to reference the sibling
> branch that way.
> However, I think you could still reference the sibling branch by
> absolute path, and other people would be able to get it, and it means
> that it would work without archives.

Of course, I'm not saying 'remove absolute references'. I'm saying
'resolve relative references w.r.t. the branch location'. This works
fine without archives too.
...
> I'm not sure how to solve it, such that we give equal value to both
> standalone branches and archives.
> It might be best if references in child-locations can be either absolute
> or relative. In a standalone branch, they must be absolute, in an
> archive, they can be relative to the root of the archive.

I think relative is fine in both.

Rob

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