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From: Peter Donald <peter@apache.org>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: The Incubator site
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:34:39 +1100
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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:22, Aaron Bannert wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:21:55AM +1100, Peter Donald wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Another thing that I have suggested before is .... create an repo lik=
e
> > jakarta-site which has all the latest uptodate jars. Make sure that y=
ou
> > are going to retain backwards compatability and then publish it's
> > existence.
> >
> > Then others can rely on this single repo to build their stuff rather =
than
> > every joe checking in binaries to their own CVS. It was one of the ke=
y
> > features that got me to dump all our cocoon based docs and move to
> > anakia.
>
> Eewwww..no binaries in CVS please.
>
> Feel free to stick up a big tarball or zip full of binaries, but that
> stuff doesn't belong in CVS, IMHO.

Okay then. However it should be noted that because Java lacks the ability=
 to=20
manage shared libraries effectively (at all!!!). Hence you could be=20
downloading 10 MB each time something changes or updates. See jakarta-sit=
e=20
module for an example of how often changes are made...

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Cheers,

Peter Donald
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he always declares that it is his duty.
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