From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOjw-0002hJ-E4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOjv-0002fE-6x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOjs-0002Ys-9r for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45014 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOjs-0002Ya-0O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:20 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.35]:3912) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQOjr-0003QV-Jh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:46:19 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m75FkHUi052737 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:46:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <414717.45608.qm@web31604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080725081827.42534c83@gibibit.com> <87ljzbg2yb.fsf@xs4all.nl> <48987410.3030005@nic.fi> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:48:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48987410.3030005@nic.fi> (Vesa =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4=E4skel=E4?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?inen's?= message of "Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:38:56 +0300") Message-ID: <87sktjcvit.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Remove conf/*.mk 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: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:46:23 -0000 Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen writes: > Marco Gerards wrote: >> Colin D Bennett 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. -- Marco