Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 19:02:11 (+0100), Christian Andersson wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? 
> Why or why not
>
> > > When you CVS a project, import it into a repository,
> > > should you add JAR files? Why or why not.
> >
> > No.  JAR files are generated -- you should only import source code.
> 
> unless ofcourse you got the jarfiles from some external source that you do
> not have the sourcs for, but might want to control in a "project" anyway...

Then they are part of a separate module, and using CVS for this module
alone just for the illusion (and that's the _most_ it could ever be) of
having them under the same control as the rest of your project is a BAD
and extremely unnecessary idea.

Certainly you should keep all the revisions of them that you have, and
certainly you should document how they relate to your own code releases.
You don't need CVS to do any of that though (except perhaps to track any
changes to your text-based documentation files).

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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