On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 16:12, Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de> wrote: > On 12/09/2011 02:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Hi Ralf, It sounds like you're confusing with build-from-release-tarball. > > No, I am not. > > >> There is a very long tradition of maintainer/developer build-from-VC >> requiring more (and very recent) tools than usual. > > No, this is not true. Probably all GNU projects have carried their generated > files inside of their VCSs.
At least GNU Emacs doesn't. If more preciously, it has pregenerated 'configure' & Co in the autogen/ directory just for any case and regenerate them periodically, but the main line doesn't rely on them and assume that if developer able to cope with VCS then he can to run 'autoreconf' also. > > Automake was no exeception from this. -- Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nose...@gmail.com>
