From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LtNBV-0008W7-E0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:30:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LtNBT-0008TI-8a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:30:51 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LtNBO-0008Pf-LK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:30:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40553 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LtNBO-0008PZ-Au for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:30:46 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56070) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LtNBN-00073j-V1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:30:46 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LtMzw-0003KX-PZ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:18:57 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LtNBK-0005kR-E5; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:30:42 +0200 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:30:42 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090413143042.GH12170@thorin> References: <49E1D4E5.5030908@gmail.com> <200904121129.26148.colin@gibibit.com> <1239569661.14481.10.camel@ct> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1239569661.14481.10.camel@ct> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Subject: Re: Removing autogenerated files from svn X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:30:51 -0000 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. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."