On Friday 09 December 2011, Andrew W wrote: > 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. > As well as (at least) findutils (since 2003), grep (since 1998), coreutils (since August 2006), autoconf (since October 2007), patch (since March 2009), bison (since 2001) and libtool and diffutils (since "the beginning", apparently).
OTOH, GNU awk still commits the autoconf-generated files (configure, Makefile.in, ...). Regards, Stefano
