Balbir Singh wrote: > Hi, > > I see several generated files merged as part of the new automake > changes. I want to remove all generated files, unless someone speaks > up and mentions why we need them.
I have seen some projects which put generated stuff in git/SVN/whatever and I have also seen some which do not have it there. Reasons for having it inside: - everyone uses the same version of generated files, builds are reproducible. Without it, developers would use different versions of automake/autoconf/libtool and might eventually get different results. I admit there is very low probability that it happens. - you do not need to have autotools installed, if you do not modify Makefiles (i.e. add new files to the project) Reasons against: - it bloats git, especially patches which add new files Personally I am slightly inclined to have the generated files in git, but I won't mind if we pull them out. Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Libcg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libcg-devel
