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There are several reasons one can think of for importing binaries into CVS: 1) The binaries are part of the graphics for the application (image files) 2) The exe file, even though it can be built again, not everybody working on the repository and checking out files have the development tool for the module and still want the exact revision of the exe to test against error reports or similar. 3) At a later time it is not even possible to build the same exe file because all developers 'upgraded' some Windows component or other that gets automatically included in the exe file (DAO comes to my mind). Then it is valuable to be able to check out the exact revision from CVS. 4) If you are using third party stuff in your distro then it is also good to track these (ActiveX, DLL etc) component files so that they are versioned. 5) Another kind of third party software is the files for MSDE... We actually stuffed the whole 67 Mb install package for MSDE and SQL7 SP3 into CVS so that we can use it in our setup scripts (also versioned in CVS). (With this we also observed a not-so-slight increase in command execution time....) /Bo -----Original Message----- From: Paul Grenyer [mailto:Paul.Grenyer at chorleys-communisis.co.uk] Sent: den 4 juni 2002 13:00 To: 'cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook' Subject: RE: [Cvsnt] importing large module size Hi > Thanks Paul, there're some binary files in the module I > wanted to import. Right, I see. I haven't actually worked out to use WinCVS yet, your projects just sounded very large and now I see why. Do you really need to back up the binaries? According to the documentation CVSNT doesn't handle them very well anyway and you should be able to rebuild binaries from source code (of course). :-) Regards Paul Paul Grenyer Software Development Engineer http://www.paulgrenyer.co.uk --LongSig communisis chorleys ltd Manston Lane Crossgates Leeds LS15 8AH Telephone +44 (0)113 225 5271 Fax +44 (0)113 225 5921 Email Paul.Grenyer at chorleys-communisis.co.uk _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs