Re: Failure to compile
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jun 15, 2010
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irv said...
Thanks, that worked. Now, the question is - why is eui not included in the svn? It's only 3 megs in size.
3 megs * 3035 revisions? * 8 platforms?
SVN is not very good at tracking binary files (although it can be done). Since we generally don't need to generate diffs between different eui binaries or such, it is more efficient to keep the binaries separately as eubins.
This doesn't make SVN very user friendly for installing Eu, but that's what the releases are for.
On the other hand, a script that automatically checks out svn head and then grabs the eubins for that version of svn (or the nearest version if no exact match is found) and installs the eubins into the checkout would probably be a very useful contribution.
