> Besides, when it takes six hours for an optimized compile (this was the 90s), or when the dev tools cost $25,000/seat, then hell yes you check binaries into revision control. Right next to the source code.
As a matter of fact, I work daily with binaries that I cannot compile myself. Hell no they are not checked in right next to the source code, not to make revision control operations unnecessarily slow down to a crawl.