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On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 -0800 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> > No, it's just encouraging bad development practices. |
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> It seems like you're making a rather arbitrary judgment. |
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Not storing generated content under revision control is hardly an |
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arbitrary judgement. It's a well accepted software development bad |
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practice. |
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> > If you're concerned that setting up an rsync mirror is difficult, |
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> > why not make a tool that generates a tarball, including metadata, |
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> > for a repo, and have people run that on a cron and distribute it |
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> > via http? That's just as easy to host, and anyone running an |
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> > overlay big enough to make this impractical already has the |
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> > resources to deal with rsync instead... |
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> I'm not saying that it necessarily "difficult" or "beyond the |
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> resources", but it does create an unnecessary burden. I think that |
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> it adds a significant level of convenience to be able to use a |
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> version control system as a single distribution channel. |
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Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to |
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keep track of and store junk under version control. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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