new user - do people store compiled code under cvs

2004-11-29 Thread Rachel Suddeth \(Bloodhound Software\)
? That is, would you save versions of things like executables, p-code, or DLLs? My gut says no, better to pull the source code for the version/revision we want to run/test/distrubute and compile from that whenever we need it. But what do people generally do? Thanks, Rachel

Re: new user - do people store compiled code under cvs

2004-11-29 Thread Frederic Brehm
At 04:39 PM 11/29/2004, Rachel Suddeth \(Bloodhound Software\) wrote: would you save versions of things like executables, p-code, or DLLs No. Not in CVS. It's a good idea to save a copy of whatever you release to your clients so you can recreate your client's environment. However, CVS is not

RE: new user - do people store compiled code under cvs

2004-11-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Rachel Suddeth (Bloodhound Software) wrote: ? That is, would you save versions of things like executables, p-code, or DLLs? My gut says no, better to pull the source code for the version/revision we want to run/test/distrubute and compile from that whenever we need it. But what do people

Re: new user - do people store compiled code under cvs

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Sander
People do, but in most cases it's not considered best practice. If you can reproduce the binaries from source, then don't put them under CVS; tag the sources and store the environment in a reproducible way. If the binaries are not reproducible from source, then there are two schools of

Re: new user - do people store compiled code under cvs

2004-11-29 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:53:51PM -0500 Jim.Hyslop wrote: Your instincts are correct. Use CVS to manage files that cannot be recreated by an automated process. Well, yes and no. The problem with recreating some files is, that this recreation might not work at any future point of