Comment by dh2022
3 days ago
Why would someone check binaries in a repo? The only time I came across checked binaries in a repo was because that particular dev could not be bothered to learn nuget / MAVEN. (the dev that approved that PR did not understand that either)
Because it’s way easier if you don’t require every level designer to spend 5 hours recompiling everything before they can get to work in the morning, because it’s way easier to just checkin that weird DLL than provide weird instructions to retrieve it, because onboarding is much simpler if all the tools are in the project, …
And it’s no sweat off p4’s back.
Hmm, I do not get it.... "The binaries are checked in the repo so that that the designer would not spend 5 hours recompiling" vs "the binaries come from a nuget site so that the designed would not spend 5 hours recompiling".
In both cases the designer does not recompile, but in the second case there are no checked in binaries in the repo... I still think nuget / MAVEN would be more appropriate for this task...
Everything is in P4: you checkout the project to work on it, you have everything. You update, you have everything up to date. All the tools are there, so any part of the pipeline can rely on anything that's checked in. You need an older version, you just check that out and off you go. And you have a single repository to maintain.
VCS + Nuget: half the things are in the VCS, you checkout the project and then you have to hunt down a bunch of packages from a separate thing (or five), when you update the repo you have to update the things, hopefully you don't forget any of the ones you use, scripts run on a prayer that you have fetched the right things or they crash, version sync is a crapshoot, hope you're not working on multiple projects at the same time needing different versions of a utility either. Now you need 15 layers of syncing and version management on top of each project to replicate half of what just checking everything into P4 gives you for free.
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Because it's (part of) a website that hosts the tarballs, and we want to keep the whole site under version control. Not saying it's a good reason, but it is a reason.