On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > Timothy Normand Miller wrote: >> > Is it worth checking the project files in? >> >> If not, we just need to understand what each of the files are and >> collect them together. > > Good plan. > > >> Also, we should not host them in the SVN repo, because the project >> file would be a non-ascii blob. We can put them on Traversal's web >> site or something. > > I disagree with this. Please do put them in svn. Subversion has no > problem with handling binaries. If the files are not automatically > recognized as binary, just make sure to: > > svn add -kb subdir/* > > to let svn know that they are binary. > > It is extremely valuable to have every single file related to the > project available in the repo. Especially files like these which may > not be easily reproducable by a large part of the open source > community.
I agree with your reasoning. The problem is that the server the repo is on doesn't belong to us. Since binaries can't be diff'ed, then every time you check in an update, it takes up as much space as the whole binary. Keep doing that enough, and you'll fill up a lot of space. Moreover, a SVN repo, IMHO, is not an appropriate place to keep releases. Each version of the Linux kernel SOURCE gets tagged in a git repo, but no one checks Linux kernel binaries into the same repo, or any repo. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
