Whether or not there is a nice, easy, "all in one" download with
everything you need has absolutely nothing to do with whether binaries are
checked into CVS.
I haven't heard anyone dispute the former -- only the latter. Why are you
linking the two issues?
Craig
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Gülcü wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I suppose this horse was thoroughly beaten to death but I still would like to hear
>about the pros and cons of including binary files in CVS.
>
> The advantages are:
>
> - By including required jar files for an application, the installation becomes
>easier as the user does not need to fetch them herself.
>
> - Only versions of the binaries known to work with the application are under CVS.
>This also eases installation.
>
> The disadvantages:
>
> - CVS does not handle binaries very well.
>
> - Increased checkout overhead as the binary files need to be retrieved from the
>network through the CVS pserver.
>
> - The binary file under CVS control might interact with other binaries that the user
>has. For example, if the user has x.jar on her classpath and x.jar is also under CVS.
>
>
> Any other advantages disadvantages? How bad is the overhead of manipulating binary
>files with CVS? Thanks for your comments, Ceki
>
>
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