THANK YOU UNIVERSE, YOU'RE A PAL

That would, and could, be solved by removing it from this repo and moving it over to its own repo where we can use the release tab to handle the binaries.

This is the tools folder, not the tools-src folder, it should have binaries for tools that need binaries to run.

I'm thinking in the terms of a dev who wants to use this tool to handle a 1gb runtime file on their latest change that had like 50 different looping runtimes, so they can actually open it and see the runtime errors. There needs to be a binary published somewhere for that.

(As that exact situation is how i even found out about the tool in the first place.)

Repost of what I wrote in Discord:

If you were putting precompiled .exes in their own repo, it would still be stupid, because that's not what Git is for, but it would bother me less because it's somewhere else. I have no problem keeping the source code to the tools in the main repo.

If you really need "official" precompiled .exes available, CI artifacts should be made to serve that purpose

I think I can find a way to accomplish all of:

1. Source code stays in the main repo
2. Binary .exes are available in a convenient location
3. Compile outputs aren't committed into Git

The only way to achieve that that makes sense is to move runtime condenser to it own repo and use the release tab for binaries.

Building a CD/CI pipeline for a program that averages 0.5 changes a year makes no sense when releases can be manually managed via the github tab.

I suppose arguing (separate repo's Releases or CI/CD) vs. (this repo's Releases or CI/CD) is mostly a matter of preference at this point - either one would solve my grievance which is with compile outputs committed to Git. But we do have 4 tools that probably don't deserve to become four entire repos:

• tools/Runtime Condenser/RuntimeCondenser.exe
• tools/dmifonts/DmiFonts.exe
• tools/CreditsTool/CreditsTool.exe
• tools/DM Line counter.exe (actually I think we don't have source for this one?)

Binary posted to https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/releases/tag/runtime-condenser-1.13