[31752] distfiles

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 22:34, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I'm just very wary of having distfiles in our repository at all.  
>> They take up so phenomenally more more space than any code we  
>> would ever write, and they can "never" be removed from the  
>> repository, so I think we should all think at least 5 times before  
>> adding distfiles to the repository.
>
> We should have another mechanism then for uploading them and  
> storing them on the server.

Old distfiles could be removed from the current repository but it  
would involve downtime of the Subversion server, and it could involve  
all the revisions being renumbered, which would mean everyone would  
have to check out new working copies of everything, which would be a  
nightmare.

We could store distfiles in a completely separate repository so that  
renumbering of revisions wouldn't affect the main repository. But  
it's still really the wrong tool for the job. We should just have FTP  
space where the distfiles can be put and deleted as needed.