-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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.
In general, it's a good rule of thumb. However, in this case I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule. >>> 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. I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmPankACgkQ/ejvha5XGaNpnQCfVHgDPmfzUbfH6mIgmpUxcWda xkYAoJ1s+DEd873rpRpDQkck6ZP7pclr =K88a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
