[Interest] Distributing custom qt build to a group of developers

[Lincoln Ramsay]

On 21/09/12 09:03, Adam Light wrote:
>
> This works pretty well except that it requires checking a lot of 
> binary files into Subversion, and both committing the files and 
> checking them out is very slow.
...
> Furthermore, as long as everyone runs svn update when I build a new 
> version of Qt, we know that we are all using the same version and 
> libraries.
>
> But I wonder whether there is a better way to handle this.

You probably want to keep the source code in svn but do you really need 
to keep the binaries there? How often do people actually need old 
binaries? I'm going to assume the answer is "not very often".

Perhaps a more useful system would be to store the source code in svn 
and keep only the most recent set of binaries (in a 
non-version-controlled directory). To get new binaries you can use say, 
rsync and to get new source you'd use svn. A trivial script could fetch 
both.

And thanks to the version-controlled sources you can still build an 
older set of binaries if you need them.

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