On 6 August 2013 19:11, Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org> wrote:
> On 8/6/13 4:18 AM, Bálint Réczey wrote: > > > Currently all the library archives are stored in SVN and if we simply > convert it > > to Git anyone cloning the repository would have to download all the libs > ever > > checked in (unless using git clone --depth which imposes other > limitations). > > Handling binary files is not exactly where Git shines. There is a > > separate project, > > git-annex to support using Git helping file storage, but Windows support > is not > > perfect according to the project's page [1]. > > > > Regarding the libraries I think it would probably be enough to use a > > downloadable > > .zip file containing a snapshot of the needed Windows libraries > > instead of cloning > > a Subversion/Git repository to the machine. The scripts maintaining the > snapshot > > could be stored in Git, of course, but I'm not sure if rethinking the > > library installation > > should happen before moving the main codebase to Gerrit. > > Good point. Ultimately I'd like to get out of the third party package > business. At Sharkfest Graham mentioned that Nuget > (http://www.nuget.org/) is starting to gain popularity as a way to > package development libraries for Windows. I'm hoping we can migrate > from what we currently have to a set of scripts that generate packages > and upload them to Nuget.org. > > I was leaning more to Chocolatey (http://http://chocolatey.org/) which is a helper wrapper around Nuget. However, someone will still have to create the Chocolatey or Nuget packages, I suppose we could create them first ourselves and then try to push them upstream to the library originator.
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