Re: Future CVS Development

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:02:04PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I don't mind keeping the odd GIF or whatnot in my CVS repo because they
> never change and having everything in one place is convenient.  However
> if I was a web site developer I'd probably want a separate tool for
> handling such things and using a separate tool wouldn't be cumbersome in
> that environment because it would often be separate people actually
> making the changes to, and creating, images and it would be very easy to
> have a "build system" that did the integration of images and text/html
> for publishing.

One idea I had was using a database to keep track of binary objects, and
using cvs to store the information about which item to pull out of the
database (possibly with something like a size and checksum indicator as
verification).  Make it part of the build system, like creating output
directories and setting up symlinks.

mrc
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