[sugar] binary file in tamtam.git

[James Bergstra]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> We have the same problem in the etoys activity. Binaries just don't  
> fit into git. *All* of the history is downloaded in your initial  
> check-out, for etoys this is approaching 200 MB now.
> 
> What we are doing about this is moving the binaries into a Subversion  
> repository. SVN handles binaries nicely, and you get versioning, too.
> 
> I did set up the subversion repository on a laptop.org machine  
> already, just waiting for the admin to enable read access over http.
> 
> Once this is done, there are two possibilities. One would be to make  
> two jhbuild modules - one for the binaries checking out from SVN, and  
> one for the source code from git. One module could be made to depend  
> on the other. The drawback is that you always have to remember to  
> update and build both modules - which is a pain with Sugar already,  
> you never know if the latest build fails because of genuine bugs or  
> because of a dependency you did not update.

What about simply migrating TamTam to SVN entirely?  We would have to re-do our
installation script if the git-db is no longer present, but it would be an
hour's work for one person at most.

James
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