On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 -0800 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > No, it's just encouraging bad development practices. > > It seems like you're making a rather arbitrary judgment.
Not storing generated content under revision control is hardly an arbitrary judgement. It's a well accepted software development bad practice. > > If you're concerned that setting up an rsync mirror is difficult, > > why not make a tool that generates a tarball, including metadata, > > for a repo, and have people run that on a cron and distribute it > > via http? That's just as easy to host, and anyone running an > > overlay big enough to make this impractical already has the > > resources to deal with rsync instead... > > I'm not saying that it necessarily "difficult" or "beyond the > resources", but it does create an unnecessary burden. I think that > it adds a significant level of convenience to be able to use a > version control system as a single distribution channel. Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to keep track of and store junk under version control. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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