Even if we don't drop the generated files in the repository (which I won't really comment on, other than that Java on FreeBSD isn't very stable - which matters because daedalus is on FreeBSD - someone may want to try to generate the docs on daedalus itself), I think the best overall solution would be to alter the CVS mailer script to send ViewCVS URLs to all of the files that changed when the entire diff exceeds a certain limit. Commits that exceed the mailing list threshold are dropped and that's not good *ever*.
I imagine some Perl hacker could tweak logaccum.pl to do this (/home/cvs/CVSROOT/log_accum.pl). If not, well, it might be time to rewrite logaccum.pl into Python. =) -- justin
I just submitted a patch for log_accum.pl to infrastructure@, which does exactly this.
Resulting mail msg exceeds predefined size limit -> ViewCVS URLs
Resulting mail msg doesn't exceed predefined size limit -> full-featured diff as normal
No dropped commit mails, all fine :)
Cheers, Erik
BTW, AFAICT somebody recently had the same problem on Xerces-C, so this is not only an issue with our we-store-all-and-everything docs tree :-)
