>> Please don't change this friendly current situation. >> >> It is really a terrible thing that many projects do no longer / not >> ship a self-contained repository, but one that requires an immense >> amount of utilities just to create a runnable configure script. > > configure would *always* be shipped within released source tarballs; > however, it is a *generated* file, and does *not* belong in a CVS > repository, IMO.
Correct. Please have in mind that the CVS is *not* intended to be user friendly, but to be friendly to the developer. The less generated files are present, the easier it is to maintain. Werner