On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:11 PM, 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.
Similarly on Mac, it would be nice if the macosx-setup.sh script could as much as possible be replaced with a set of homebrew packages (or some other equivalent). ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
