On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:They don't, as far as I know. Geronimo is hardly the only project to raise
a concern about "190MB of generated artifacts in CVS?!" There are various
alternative solutions being looked at, including a build server. So look
for things to change down the road. No one is trying to do stupid things.
They just want to make sure that in the event of a problem, we can recover
in a relatively painless fashion.
The truth is, if the whole thing is generated from source files in
CVS, so long as the actual source code is backed up, the web site CAN be
recovered in a relatively painless fashion -- just restore the CVS backup
and build the site. Am I missing something?
This is true of all maven-generated sites. IIRC some Jakarta Commons sites are like this and the Maven site itself is like this too.
I guess eventually we could just do a file system backup of the last-deployed site in case of error. Or as Noel says, have some kinda build server.
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
