----- Original Message ----- > On 05/21/2013 04:55 PM, Volker Simonis wrote: > > > I always felt that having the build instructions checked in into the > > repository is somewhat to heavyweight. > > There are two good reasons to do this. > > Firstly, it's a free software tradition: I expect to find a README with > build instructions in the repo. Secondly, the build instructions will > change over time, so of they're on a Wiki there will have to be > multiple versions. > > Andrew. >
Another reason is it makes the software self-contained; I don't need Internet access and a web browser to be able to build it. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
