On 07/05/2015 18:26, John C. Peterson wrote: > Greetings, Hi John, > > I've started to work on doing some clean-up of the make/cmake/qmake > files for WSPR-X, and noticed there are a number of binary (ar and > dll) files in the svn repo. > > The svn documentation discourages storing binary files, and in my > experience that is pretty good advice, (make can get fooled by the > timestamps, link problems because of incompatible object files, and > they gooble up lots of space as changes can't be stored as diffs). I basically agree but sometimes it is unavoidable. > > I was going to remove them from the repo as part of my clean-up, but > figured I should check first. (I noticed that the much more active > WSJT-X repo does not contain any binary files). That is quite correct /w respect to WSJT-X we do have a small number of binary files in the repo, for example we use an NSIS plug in DLL that is not available in source form.
It is well worth trying to eliminate parts of the final product being built from pre-built binary components but occasionally tools and installation support facilities may have to be binary. > > 73, John > 73 Bill G4WJS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
