Nested tree support [was Bzr externals for bzr and bzr-svn]

[Patrick van der Velde]

Hi Martin

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:21, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 14 April 2010 11:13, Patrick van der Velde
> <petrikvandervelde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> Thanks everybody for the answers to my questions. I can see that there
>> are many different view points on this subject and I understand both
>> sides of the story. Currently at work I'm blocked from using bzr
>> because it doesn't play well with SVN externals, however I am able to
>> use bzr quite well in my personal projects :)
>>
>> Given that the lack of nested trees seems to be a blocker for quite a
>> few features (snv-externals integration, multi-level projects etc.)
>> can somebody shed some light on why there is no development on this
>> feature? Is the spec incomplete, is it blocked by other features, not
>> enough people to work on it .... etc. I think it would be nice to know
>> why nested trees isn't moving on.
>
> People are working on other things.  When we previously tried to
> integrate Aaron's work on it I had some concerns about possible
> fallout from it (bugs, performance) because it took a fairly big-bang
> approach, and I didn't want to just take it in unless there was going
> to be enough momentum to look after it.

Sounds fair enough to me :) I hope nested trees will make it on the
list at some point. Until that time I'll happily use bzr-externals for
my own work.

Regards

patrick