Re: [Jython-dev] Migrating to GitHub

[Eero A. <eer...@ik...>]

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:14 PM Jeff Allen <ja...@fa...> wrote:

> On 28/05/2020 13:13, Eero Aaltonen wrote:
>
> Regarding the jars, are you
> * going to keep the history intact and the jars in the resulting Git
> repository or
> * a harsher break dropping the binaries completely?
>
> What we have (jars and all) will be on the 2.7 branch, where Gradle would
> not go any further than I got with jython-slim. GitHub discourages large
> binary files, and large repos generally, but we're not at the point where
> it makes us use their large file store.
>
This will incur a cost when doing an initial clone of the repository, as
Git will compress everything before transferring over the network. If you
don't have heavy CI and generally keep existing clones, the cost should
amortize reasonably.

-- 
Eero Aaltonen

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