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Offline Maciej Piechotka

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configure and other autogenerated files in svn
« on: September 23, 2009, 09:36:06 pm »
I noticed that the configure and other autogenerated files are present in svn. What is the reason for them - as usually they are consider unneeded (especially that they may change a lot with just rebuilding it and generally are redundant) instead of autogen.sh or something similar?

PS. I'm not speaking about release tarballs.
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Re: configure and other autogenerated files in svn
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2009, 09:44:54 pm »
configure is in because not everybody has autoconf or automake installed - which other files are you talking about?
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Re: configure and other autogenerated files in svn
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2009, 09:56:42 pm »
Quote from: Mattn on September 23, 2009, 09:44:54 pm
configure is in because not everybody has autoconf or automake installed - which other files are you talking about?

Well. I meant mainly autotools (Makefile.in etc.). I guess that not everybody is checking sources from SVN - and people who do should know of autotools or at least README files ;) -  -dev packets or similar are needed anyway (unless someone is using Gentoo in which case (s)he have autotools anyway).

It just strike me as it is the first project which do so - and it is probably poluting bandwith, makes problems with merge etc.

But it is your project of course.
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