[sugar] binary file in tamtam.git

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:34:46PM -0500, James Bergstra wrote:
> Yes, it is generated from aclient.cpp, using the Makefile in the same directory.
> It is included in the git repository because in effect, aclient.so depends on
> several packages that are not installed by default on the OLPC (gcc, for
> example).  Since, it is not generally possible to generate aclient.so from
> aclient.cpp on the olpc when we install the activity, I put it in git.

What about abiword? Should all the binary *.o files be stored in GIT as 
well? I urge you to rethink your compilation strategy. Binary files have 
no business being in GIT. You are just wasting the disk space of 
everybody who clones your repository. If you want to keep precompiled 
binaries somewhere (similar to the squeak/etoys image) then please keep 
them outside of GIT. Anywhere wget accessible is fine. Abiword already 
requires a C compiler so anybody using jhbuild will not have any 
difficulty recreating your *.so files.