Von: "Ralph Corderoy" <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> > > Hi Keith, > > > however, [configure] is a *generated* file, and does *not* belong in a > > CVS repository, IMO. > > Quite. Nothing generated belongs in CVS; that's for human-edited > source only as otherwise its usefulness for investigation and > understanding changes diminshes due to the noise. CVS users have to > expect to need more than a shipped tar-ball requires. > > tar-balls can be archived separately to record what was shipped to users > over time, including the configure produced by the developer's system at > that instant.
Does that mean that in CVS all files generated by autconf/autoreconf such as `configure' should vanish? So everyone using CVS must first run autoconf/autoreconf? Bernd Warken
