[sane-devel] Autotools generated files and CVS

Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org
Sat Jan 17 09:20:52 UTC 2009


Chris Bagwell <chris at cnpbagwell.com> wrote:

Hi,

> I've not seen this discussed in mailing list archive.  Is there any past 
> discussions?

We leave autotools files in CVS because:
 - it's a pain to regenerate them
 - developers don't always know autofoo
 - distributions ship broken version of the autotools routinely
 - autotools versioning issues

JB.

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