RE: [PHP-DEV] Size of release tarballs

Hi Stas, > -----Original Message----- > From: Stanislav Malyshev [mailto:smalyshev@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2017 10:16 PM > To: Anatol Belski <ab@php.net>; Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>; Remi Collet > <remi@php.net> > Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net> > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Size of release tarballs > > Hi! > > > Lately there was a discovering about some files causing size growth of > > the release tarballs > > https://github.com/php/php- > src/commit/469206c84e502e3e349655b802899d5e > > 4d560f72 . Usually we strive to keep tarballs as small as possible and > > avoid disproportional growth of the size. This case seems to be of the > > exact nature. I would like to ask for an explicit response from RMs on > > this case. > > I'd say we probably should not include multi-megabyte images in the distros. > Most tests should be fine with a small image. > > > Perhaps it were also a good point to discuss a way to prevent big > > binary files to land in the repo. So far some files in the repo can > > I think we can handle it in the old-fashioned way now - just notify the RMs and > clean up the repos. > Yeah, there likely won't be any quick solution with commit hooks. I see Sara already did respond on GitHub, so some cleanups should be triggered. Regards Anatol