Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements on cygwin

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| And another thing is that since this is a repository and all
| history is kept, everything we do takes more space. For example
| each new version of gcl-2.6.8pre.tgz that we commit to the SVN
| repository adds another 50 Mbytes since no attempt is made to do
| binary diffs. (I think there are already 4 versions of gcl in the
| build-improvements branch.)

Indeed.  I'm of the opinion that keeping GCL as a tarball in the repo
is a mistake.

-- Gaby