Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

["Javier Martín" <lordhabbit@gmail.com>]

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El mar, 05-08-2008 a las 17:48 +0200, Marco Gerards escribió:
> Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:
> 
> > Marco Gerards wrote:
> >> Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com> writes:
> >>> I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository.  If
> >>> people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn
> >>> branches, then I think it's fine to require them to have Ruby.  For
> >>> released tarballs that we expect non-developers to use, we just need to
> >>> generate the *.mk files and include them in the tarball.
> >>
> >> I do not have problems with this.  Besides this, it will stop people
> >> from sending in patches with .mk changes in it :-)
> >
> > I think Okuji's objection is based on fact that it makes it harder for
> > people to compile from sources. Now what if we would generate those
> > files when making a release? Of course this should be enabled to
> > script/makefile to make it automatically so it is not forgotten ;)
> 
> Right.  Just to be clear, personally I didn't have these objections
> but Okuji has.
> 
> Actually, since ruby is required to generate these files, I guess we
> can better keep the .mk files.
Why not rewrite genmk.rb in a more common language (i.e. with an
interpreter more commonly found in stock GNU installs) like Python or
Perl?

Habbit

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