[GRASS-dev] Re: What is a binary executable doing in CVS?

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Bernhard,

as CVS admin, could you help us with this problem before it
becomes too messy?

thanks,
Markus

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:04:23PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
> > > Why are we including what appears to be a MacOSX binary for GNU make
> > > in CVS (gem/skeleton/macosx/bin/make)? We wouldn't normally store
> > > binary executables in CVS.
> > > 
> > > Apart from anything else, this obligates us to either host the source
> > > code for that version of make, or offer to provide the source code
> > > upon request for three years from the time that the binary is no
> > > longer available via CVS. Do we even know which version of the source
> > > code we need to supply?
> > 
> > Oops, that's a leftover from pre-CVS development of GEM.
> > Just delete it if you want.
> 
> Unfortunately, "cvs remove" won't suffice, because the file will still
> be available from CVS using an explicit revision.
> 
> We either need to add the corresponding source code to CVS (a tarball
> would suffice, but it needs to be the correct version), or have
> someone manually remove the ,v file from the repository.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> 
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