[cvsnt] Re: Modules2 status

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:47:13 +0100, "John Hall"
<john-news2 at cambridgetechgroup.com> wrote:

>I tried converting my modules file to the new Modules2 format under 2.5.01 
>(build 1976), and encountered a few problems? What is the status of Modules2 
>support? I read the documentation on the wiki and it seems a bit incomplete.
>
>The issues I found are as follows:
>
>1. non-recursion doesn't seem to work
>
>[project]
>/ = !some/module
>
>This checks out all the folders below some/module too.
>
>2. Can't seem to overlay modules
>
>[project]
>/ = some/module
>subdir/module1 = common/module1
>subdir/module2 = common/module2
>
>This is where 'some/module' has a subdirectory called 'subdir' that contains 
>files. The directory 'module1' is created, but none of the files from 
>some/module/subdir are checked out.
>

Did not work last time I looked. And that was about the build you
report or a bit earlier.
You would be better off with the latest CVSNT, now 2.5.02.2040 (if I
remember correctly).


/Bo Berglund