On Monday 13 April 2009 23:30:42 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:54:21PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 11:29 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > phcoder wrote on Sunday 12 April 2009: > > > > Hello, we all know how annoying are these autogenerated files. We > > > > could remove it. The main argument against it is that people will not > > > > be able to compile without installing a lot of developement tools. It > > > > changes nothing for the users wanting to modify the code. So I > > > > propose to remove these files but in compensation setup a nightly > > > > build server. I'm ready to supply all necessary scripts to create a > > > > source tar.gz with autogenerated files, binary tar.gz and rescue iso > > > > for all platforms where applicable. > > > > > > Great idea. I'd love to see this happen. > > > > Me too. > > Me too. > > Okuji, can we agree on it this time? It's annoying for most people, and > release tarballs can include the autogenerated files, so the ruby > dependency is not a problem for end users.
Well, it was not only about ruby, but also about autoconf. Anyway, if someone updates the INSTALL file appropriately, I don't object. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel