On 02/26/2011 01:03 PM, Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi Laura, > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Laura Creighton<l...@openend.se> wrote: >> I don't care about the old versions of binary files. > > That was the only thing we talked about -- as far as I understood, it > was never suggested that we should stop tracking revisions of .txt or > .tex files. I don't know the BigfilesExtension either, but it looks > to me like we can achieve some more precise result manually. > Something along the lines of: the .pdf's built from .tex's are not > checked in, but they are in some standardized place on > http://pypy.org, where we can fetch them, update them (via ssh), or > point people to (via their url). This can be easily done with a > script independent from Mercurial. (The point is of course that > tracking revisions is a bit useless, because we can always go back in > time and re-run latex2pdf.)
Not necessarily, it's always possible that whatever latex packages were needed to compile the pdf are no longer around or a big hassle to install. This can make regeneration impractical. So I am in favor of keeping the PDFs in the repo. Carl Friedrich _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
