On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Matt Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > Like others I use a 3rdParty folder for my dependencies, but I'm undecided > whether to do this for my installer bootstrapper. > > So far I've been embedding the .NET 4 web installer (869 KB) which I've > added to my 3rdParty folder so it's included in a fresh checkout in order to > build the bootstrapper. We've recently had requests to embed the standalone > installer instead of the web installer. This adds 35.3 MB for the x86 > installer, and 48.1 MB for the x64 installer. I want to add these to the > 3rdParty folder to avoid path dependencies on the machine used to build the > bootstrapper, but I'm not keen on adding 83.4 MB of binary files to my > repository. > > How do others handle this?
I think 83.4 meg is not much to be concerned about to add to the repository. The primary goal, for me, is to have a repo that holds *everything* that is needed for the project to be considered "complete". Clearly, you don't need to add binaries that are generated by the build, but if they are required to "do things", like NAnt or NUnit, then I add them. -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
