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

[Vin Shelton]

On 4/10/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> 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.

Personally, I find this to be in the 'pointless cleanup' category. 
Yes, it's cleaner not to have any generated files checked in to CVS,
but we've been working this way for a long time, so why would we want
to break this?  What is the benefit?  Especially since we would
require people to maintain 2 different versions of autoconf for the
stable and beta branches.

I think that implementing this would actually make the build process
slightly less stable.

Just my $.02.

  - Vin

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