Re: RFC: Do we need to keep configure, src/depend, etc in CVS?
On 4/10/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
Many projects do not keep maintainer-generated files like configure
and src/depend in CVS. CVS users are expected to have tools like
autoconf (to generate configure) and perl (to run the script that
generates src/depend) available.
Would it be an inconvenience to anyone if we CVS remove'd these files
from the XEmacs repository? Of course the beta and stable tarballs
would continue to provide such files.
Personally, I find this to be in the 'pointless cleanup' category.
Yes, it's cleaner not to have any generated files checked in to CVS,
but we've been working this way for a long time, so why would we want
to break this? What is the benefit? Especially since we would
require people to maintain 2 different versions of autoconf for the
stable and beta branches.
I think that implementing this would actually make the build process
slightly less stable.
Just my $.02.
- Vin
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