Re: Removing autogenerated files from svn

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

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