RFC: Do we need to keep configure, src/depend, etc in CVS?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Many projects do not keep maintainer-generated files like configure
and src/depend in CVS.  CVS users are expected to have tools like
autoconf (to generate configure) and perl (to run the script that
generates src/depend) available.

Would it be an inconvenience to anyone if we CVS remove'd these files
from the XEmacs repository?  Of course the beta and stable tarballs
would continue to provide such files.

It's not obvious that there would be a great advantage to do so.  But
I'm considering providing a bootstrap.mk file or a script so that you
can do "make -f bootstrap.mk" and get all of the generated files
updated.  make beta could depend on this.  This might make the build
process somewhat more reliable.

Comments welcome!

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