Ralf Corsepius 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.
Then you must be looking at different projects than I am.
There are hundreds of GNU projects that have stopped
version-controlling generated files like "configure".
Here are a few that come to mind that have kept up with best practices:
autoconf
bison
coreutils
cpio
diffutils
findutils
gcal
gnupg
grep
gsasl
gss
gzip
m4
parted
patch
sed
shishi
tar
None of the above repositories version-control the autoconf-generated
"configure" file. Not even autoconf itself. Just because a few other
projects continue to do that does not make it a good idea. It has been
clear for more than a decade that it is in fact counter-productive to
VC generated files.
To verify my assertion, you can run this command:
git ls-files '*configure'
For the above repositories, that generates no output.
>> 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.
Contradicting *again*, with nothing to support your claim?
At least some of the above projects stopped version-controlling
generated files more than five years ago.
