[Scons-dev] Web site checkout is 650Mb

[Antonio Cavallo]

Nope, using a version control on binary files is not wrong: in the gaming industry these are called "assets" and studios do this all the time.

You could put the docs into a gigantic gz file and extract as part of the doc building process on the fly: that's what I do with doc (mine is +250Mb thanks to MathAjax).

I hope this helps 


On 20 Jul 2013, at 11:46, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi,

> 

> Our website checkout is 650Mb, which is huge.

> 

> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons-website

> 

> The most space is taken by binary documentation formats and archives. The problem is that we use version control for deployment of binary files to the web site, which seems wrong to me.

> 

> The correct approach would be:

> 1. Move all binary files (documentation PS, PDF and .tar.gz) from version control to SF downloads

> 2. Create web site deployment script to fetch files from the SF on and place them into appropriate subdirs

> 3. Add script into release checklist (where is it, btw?)

> 

> Did I miss something?

> 

> -- 

> anatoly t.

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