Re: Checking the generated configure script into the repository

2022-02-08 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Friday, February 4, 2022 9:49 AM +1100 ellie timoney wrote: One risk of having the configure script checked into the repository is that people will misunderstand that it's generated, and spend a lot of time manually solving some problem, only to have their PR rejected because the chan

Re: Checking the generated configure script into the repository

2022-02-03 Thread ellie timoney
One risk of having the configure script checked into the repository is that people will misunderstand that it's generated, and spend a lot of time manually solving some problem, only to have their PR rejected because the changes are in the wrong place. We've seen this sort of thing from time to

Checking the generated configure script into the repository

2022-02-02 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
I'd like to check in the configure script to the repository rather than having it be done a seperate step outside of the process. Changes to configure are rare and generally packagers will generate their own copy regardless of whether or not one is checked into the git repository, so it doesn'