Linking PamelaWare Common Code into a PamelaWare Plugin

Prerequisites

• you have to have committer access to the plugin repository
• you have to have a subversion client running

Set the External Property

• check out the repository into a directory
  

  # svn co https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwmw/trunk/pwmw pwmw
  Checked out revision 1.
  

• Set your editor preference and change directories to the main plugin directory
  

  # export EDITOR=vi
  # cd pwmw 
  

• Run the svn propedit command
  

  # svn propedit svn:externals . 
  

• Add the following two lines within the editor and save:

  pwlib   https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwcommon/trunk/pwlib
  legal   https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwcommon/trunk/legal
  

Test & Commit the External Setting

• test the setting with the propget function:

  # svn propget svn:externals .
  pwlib   https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwcommon/trunk/pwlib
  legal   https://pamelaproject.com/svn/pw/pwcommon/trunk/legal
  

• run svn update and test that the pwlib and legal directories are added in the right place:
  

  # svn update
  
  Fetching external item into 'pwlib'
  A    pwlib/utils.pwlib.php
  
  ... (deleted for brevity)
  
  A    pwlib/processing.pwlib.php
  Updated external to revision 123.
  
  
  Fetching external item into 'legal'
  A    legal/LICENSE
  A    legal/CONTRIBUTORS
  Updated external to revision 123.
  
  Updated to revision 1.
  root@ubuntu:/tmp/pwmw# 
  

• If the files are put into the right place, then run svn commit

  # ls
  legal  pwlib
  # svn commit -m "Added PW common code to pwmw plugin"
  Sending        .
  
  Committed revision 2.