I guess I was reluctant because of the delay involved in doing a checkout
over a slow network - i.e. if I did a checkout from home then it'd take
forever since the office's upstream bandwidth is so slow.

That said it's pretty rare to do a full checkout (usually just updates) so I
think I can live with it.

Thanks.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Noon Silk <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>
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