On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > We have the same problem in the etoys activity. Binaries just don't > fit into git. *All* of the history is downloaded in your initial > check-out, for etoys this is approaching 200 MB now. > > What we are doing about this is moving the binaries into a Subversion > repository. SVN handles binaries nicely, and you get versioning, too. > > I did set up the subversion repository on a laptop.org machine > already, just waiting for the admin to enable read access over http. > > Once this is done, there are two possibilities. One would be to make > two jhbuild modules - one for the binaries checking out from SVN, and > one for the source code from git. One module could be made to depend > on the other. The drawback is that you always have to remember to > update and build both modules - which is a pain with Sugar already, > you never know if the latest build fails because of genuine bugs or > because of a dependency you did not update.
What about simply migrating TamTam to SVN entirely? We would have to re-do our installation script if the git-db is no longer present, but it would be an hour's work for one person at most. James -- http://www-etud.iro.umontreal.ca/~bergstrj _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
