[vorbis-dev] Resend of NetBSD patch

[Ralph Giles]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 volsung at asu.edu wrote:

> Yeah, but most people aren't going to run autoconf everywhere there is a
> configure.in script after they checkout CVS.  Since configure is autogenerated
> once for all platforms, I figure that keeping the current configure.in and
> configure committed in CVS makes everyone's life a little easier.  It's not
> like the Makefile.in->Makefile relationship where each platform potentially
> has a different Makefile.

I prefer keeping autogenerated code out of cvs. It wastes repository space
and bandwidth, and it's possible to forget to regenerate the files before
committing. Patches contain lots of garbage that doesn't matter, and
occasionally people edit the wrong file out of ignorance.

I've made exceptions for exotic tools, or to remove dependencies on other
architectures (perl on win32, say) but I don't think requiring auto* is
these days an unreasonable burden for those following cvs on *nix.

Typically, one includes a convenience script (autogen.sh) that takes care
of invoking autoconf and the rest, and one learns to use it in place of
configure when working with the cvs source. Of course, distribution
tarballs still include the generated files.

IMO,
 -ralph


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giles at ashlu.bc.ca

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