RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Jeff King]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Mike Castle
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 2:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > Exactly. "Source code" and "binary data" are quite conceptually
> different.
>
> Not always.
>
> Both can be used to create an executable (embedded icons, for instance).
> So, from the viewpoint of "source items that are used to make a final
> executable," they ARE conceptually the same.

No, they are still not the same at all. Icons are simply data being
displayed by the window. The fact that it's compiled into the EXE is a build
issue, not a source code issue. Embedding icons (e.g., Delphi copies the
binary data into its form files) is just an issue of mixing data and code,
which I consider bad regardless of versioning tool.

Instead of embedding icons, you can load the images from a resource file at
run time.