[Ns-developers] storing a waf binary in the ns-3-dev repository

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 12:51 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> On 06/08/07, Mathieu Lacage <mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>         hi,
>         
>         Would anyone object to the proposal in the subject ? This
>         would allow us
>         to avoid having separately download waf and it would allow
>         gustavo to
>         easily update the binary for everyone.
> 
> I'm not sure that is a good idea.  My quick experiments show me that
> the .hg tree grows by around 90k for every time I commit a new waf
> binary.  At this rate I cannot aford to commit very often... 

I am sure that if it is a problem, we can remove the binary at a later
point (by using the mercurial history puncturing patches) but it sure
would be handy to keep it there for now. And, honestly, I can live with
one more megabyte of data to download for every clone.


Mathieu

--