Often in the course of developing a project it is desirable to use code from a  third party. The main benefit, of course, is being able to add functionality without developing that functionality from scratch. Some third-party projects we have used in the past include FCKEditor (now CKEditor), the Yahoo! User Interface library, and, more recently, the CakePHP framework.

When our code is maintained in a subversion repository there are two options for including third-party code: externals and vendor branches. Continue reading Subversion and Third-Party Code →