[Development] Policy for examples with large resources?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

27.01.2017, 19:41, "Oswald Buddenhagen" <oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io>:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:48:54PM +0000, Sean Harmer wrote:
>>  Is there a way we can get a git-lfs repo set up as a submodule to be
>>  referenced by the qt3d repo?
>
> sure. you just need to prototype a solution which i can deploy to our
> server. as of now, you have gerrit 2.7 and apache at your disposal.
>
>>  Or is there some other solution that would be preferred?
>
> one quite ugly variant is doing poor man's "lfs" by putting a script in
> the repo which uses wget and such to fetch data from some well-known
> location. the file names on the server should be versioned, of course.
> the problem is of course reviewing and uploading the files ...

Another variant which is similar but (arguably) somewhat less ugly is to put
assets into Conan[1] package. We already have necessary qt5.git infrastructure
in place.

[1] https://www.conan.io/

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Konstantin