Re: 3.2/4.0 build

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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

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