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

[Paul Sander]

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>We do quite lot of  Java developpement with CVS and we handle jars like this :

>1) Jars that _we generate_ are not stored in CVS, only the sources are.
>2) 3rd party Jars that we use are stored on an internal web server (one 
>directory per jar with a sub directory per version)
>3) We use an ANT build script to obtain the required jars from the web 
>server at build time (this build script - XML file _is_ stored in CVS)
>4) Sometimes our output jars are in fact input to other products, in this 
>case we upload them to the web server so that other projects can get them.

In other words, you grew an ad-hoc versioning system for non-ASCII sources.
Many of us find this type of solution to be unacceptable for a myriad of
reasons.

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