On 5/4/05, Timothy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Brunning wrote: > >The zip file is a generated artifact. I've always found it a good rule > >of thumb that you should keep source artifacts in your version control > >system, not generated artifacts. > > > > > > > version control systems are used for many purposes. it's just as > important to keep track of your packaged releases and documentation as > it is source code. > its also a very convenient method of keeping people up with the lastest > version.
Well, they may be used for many things, but what they are *good* at is what they were designed for. Use them to do a job that they *weren't* designed for, and they don't do so well. The zip file essentially contains the whole system in on lump. Change the system, and naturally your users will have to download the whole lump again. (In my 'day job', I'm a Java web app developer. We keep the source for our systems in SVN, any 3rd party JARs, and our build scripts. We *used* to keep the installable WAR files in there too, but we've stopped doing that now, for this reason amongst others.) > i know i've seen what i'm asking for before, but no one seems to be able > to tell me. Sorry, but I'm not aware that py2exe can do this, or has ever been able to. Again, it's designed to build you a minimum-file-count distributable, and that's what it's good at. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
