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

Fri Apr 14 05:26:46 EDT 2006

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:23 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 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.

+1