On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:53:46PM -0500, Chris Liu wrote:
> As a voice of dissent, generated files that are released I will check in
> (not the development ones). Compilers changes, etc. are enough and having
> the original binaries under source control is handy, though there are many
> other ways to go about it.
Yes. Check in your compilers, and your OS. That is the proper way to do
it. Maybe want to check in 3rd party libraries that you don't have access
to, but, for the most part, it should always be source that goes in a
repository.
If you can't recreate your original releases with the appropriate tools,
then you're not doing true configuration management. CM is more than just
tracking the individual source files, it tracking the environment (the
configuration) that was used to build those files into the release.
mrc
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