Re: 3.2/4.0 build
- Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gma?l?com> Apr 24, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > Matt Lewis wrote: > > > > > > Rob does that with each release. svn doesn't handle binaries very well, so > > if we start committing binaries all the time, it's going to slow down > > updates. Also, if we put it on SF, we get a download counter to give an > > idea of how many people are using it. > > > > Ok. I've just never seen that done before, adding the built binaries to SVN. > I wonder if after release they should be removed as it does cause confusion > and some difficulty with testing and maintaining SVN. For instance, I compile, > build. and want to do a good deal of testing, I copy the binaries from src/ > and place them in bin. Each time before svn commit, I have to remember to svn > revert -R bin I recommend not using your development tree as your installed version. The new 'nix install (only a deb package, so far) would pretty much enforce this. Matt