Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

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 ;)

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen