marc, >> So HOW can SVN be of any use for THIS prob? > > Take a look at the Subversion documentation (the "book") and search > for `Vendor branches`. > [...] > The section deals specifically with the situation how to manage 3rd > party source code with subversion which you want to update from time > to time and even apply some modifications.
thank you very much for pointing this out! I did not even dare to hope to find sth. of this kind with a rcs for MY software. So I did not even start searching. Thank you, Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list