Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Richard Caley]

In article <address@hidden>, Larry Jones (lj) writes:

lj> No.  JAR files are generated -- you should only import source code.

Source code is generated. You should only import brains:-)

Whether somethign is best thougt of as original or derrived depends on 
context. Others have mentioned 3rd party jar files. Another case is
when at least one of the systems to be developed or delivered on
doesn't have a working Java instalation and it;s hard to give it
one. In that case it can make sense to treat a jar file as (for this
project) an original.

Similar things can apply to things like images, non plain text
documentation etc.

As for distributing things by some other mechanism, why set up another 
system when CVS versioning is usually exactly what you need (so you
can always go back and build an older version).

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