Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

[Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>]

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.

--
Marco