On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide wrote:
> On February 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> I just updated from CVS and I'm not getting a top level configure
>> script... Where do I get it from?
>
> I'm a mean and nasty militant CVS freak who thinks that generated
> files shouldn't be in CVS[1], and people working from CVS should have
> developer tools. Of course, I'm not /that/ mean and nasty; you can get
> the configure script from the nightly tarball. It rarely changes, so
> you should only need to grab it once for the foreseeable future.
I tend to agree with you in most cases - automatically generated code
isn't really that useful. Autoconf/Automake is the one tool I tend to
see commonly that deserves an exception, I feel.
Specifically, the configure script is an almost completely static thing
that is required only for doing some detection. The content of it does
not vary per-machine.
Without it, it becomes difficult for the average Emacs user to grab CVS,
compile, and have it work. They suddenly need a new external package
installed to support the configure script.
So, I would suggest that, for this one file, you make an exception. It
lowers the bar for testers *dramatically* which, from what I have seen,
pays well in early detection of bugs.
Daniel
--
The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would
spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.
-- Dennis Miller
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