The issue is that sourcesafe has problems once it gets over 4Gb in size. I
assumed that the solution size here was large enough to potentially make
this a factor. Also if you have satellite resource assemblies these can get
quite big very quickly, so keeping one uncompiled file in them is bad
enough, let alone all the compiled copies. Currently (because our previous
projects were run with the binaries in sourcesafe) the longest part of my
day is actually waiting for sourcesafe because it is approaching this size.
Don't forget the original question also covered using the same build script
on demand as well.
This is why we build the solutions on the developer machines as part of a
nightly build (actually they are built on a build machine and pushed to the
developer machines using a build script that copies them over (if the
previous build was successful).
Frans, the sourcesafe nightmare is actually ok if you add your projects to
solutions as follows:
Top Level
Sublevel 1
Sublevel2
It only becomes a nightmare if you try and start with adding them in
sourcesafe from the bottom (or anywhere else). Source safe info is oddly
stored in both the solution and project files and all the project needs is
the top level solution. Right in the top of the project file is a reference
to the top level solution for source control. Our directory structure is
currently CompanyNamespace\Subsystem
The overarching solution sits in the CompanyNamespace directory.
HTH
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2004 09:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large solutions and references
so based on a working month approx of approx 20 days you will after 5 months
have accumulates a terrible 500MB, on say a 160GB (a pretty average size
drive these days) drive, I fail to see the big issue, it's not as-if you
would get the latest version of every build ever done when you simply want
to reference the latest build in your solution
-----Original Message-----
From: Frans Bouma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2004 10:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large solutions and references
> Also a nice way to share the base build if you are using
> SourceSafe is to check the built dll's into SourceSafe, and
> use shadow folders by referencing the files in the shadow
> folder, it's very easy to update your local build to the
> newest version of the built files by simply getting the
> latest version of the build folder from SourceSafe
But if the destination dll is huge (and we're talking a huge
solution here, so chances are, it is), say 5MB or more, every build will
thus use 5MB of space (maybe more) in sourcesafe, as sourcesafe stores a
bin file completely. So doing 100 nightly builds causes 500MB of size in
your db. :) Not a pleasant thought ;)
FB
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