On Thu, Feb  1, 2007 at 20:17:48 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:

> Le jeudi 1 février 2007 19:42, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > Does that really need to be in svn, as opposed to on a random web page?
> > I don't really see the point of adding binary junk in version control.
> 
> Well, we hqve mqny binaries un the project tree, such as the debian tarball...
> 
Which is useless too IMO.

> I may tend to think it can also act as a main reference for the project's 
> files... For instance, we maintain tags. A binary has its place to my point..
> 
You can diff stuff against a tag.  A binary is useful if you want to
download it, so you can put it in some web space.  The released tarballs
are also maintained on sf.net, and you can keep them in an archive
somewhere, but an scm fundamentally isn't the right place IMO.

Cheers,
Julien

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