On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:55 AM, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:

> The repository must contain *everything* necessary to build the final
> product, except the build tools themselves.

That "except the build tools themselves" is a huge hole in your =20
philosophy, and a big part of what I was talking about.  Our "tools" =20
binary directory contains over 4000 items (including things like =20
versioned copies of the C compiler for several targets and several =20
versions.) (and SCV software sucks at binary files.)  God help you if =20
your makefile uses some feature that you thought was a standard part =20
of some /usr/bin utility that "the community" decides Must Be Changed.

You can get an unpleasant glimpse of some of the issues if you try to =20
install open source software of any complexity from the linux =20
community on a (theoretically) slightly different unix system like a =20
Mac, FreeBSD, or netBSD system...

BillW

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