On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Aaron Bentley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11-03-09 04:51 PM, Robert Collins wrote: >>> Is there any reason why we should not clean this up and remove old versions? >> >> No reason. Long as we have all versions covered by: >> - last db deploy >> - db devel >> - devel > > A Bazaar branch seems like a poor way to manage the sourcedeps, because > each new version takes up the same amount of space, and that space is > taken up permanently in the history (modulo ghosts). > > If we want to maintain a full history of every version, we could ungzip > the tarfiles and maintain file-ids as we replace versions. That would > allow Bazaar's delta compression to work. It would also mean that every > launchpad branch would be associated with a particular revision of the > sourcedeps branch. > > But I don't know if having a fully versioned history is actually needed. > If it's not, couldn't we just have a directory on devpad that we rsync, > which has all the latest versions required by last db deploy, db stable, > and stable (okay, db devel and devel too)?
If we are actually looking for a better approach that requires some work, there are a few standard patterns that are usually followed for zc.buildout. We don't need to innovate if we want to put some time into it. That said, this is far from a priority problem AFAIK. Gary _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
