[news.eclipse.tools] Eclipse & CVS -- package level versioninng as in Vi

[Sundar Narasimhan <sundar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I'd like to know if Eclipse supports "package" level versions or 
could be made to support such a concept w/ CVS.

In VisualAge we could collect say version 1.0 of com.company.x.A and 3.0
of com.company.x.B and call that the version "My Release 1.0" of 
com.company.x package.

Since our products are comprised of several packages it helps to know a
product release 7.0 is built up of say
	com.company.base 1.0
        com.company.util 17.0
etc.

Is it possible to version (or simulate versioning of directories) in CVS 
.. I guess the straightforward answer would be "no" -- CVS does not 
support such a thing. But what I was wondering was if people had 
invented ways around it.

How do you actually support complex products out in the field.. do you 
tag the entire hierarchy and just use cvs tags sparingly?

In VisualAge since versioning is supported at both the package level 
(and at the project level which is a collection of packages), it is 
extremely simple to get one's workspace to a state that corresponds to a 
release.. how do people do this in CVS when the package structure is 
several directories spread out over several jars?

Thanks.