Re: Including a configure file in CVS
- From: Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr UVic CA>
- To: Balsa List <balsa-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Including a configure file in CVS
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:25:49 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> Someone has posted a bug (17274) about having configure included in CVS, in
> order to prevent people needing to install autoconf et al.
>
> I totally disagree with this, since if you can't handle having these things
> installed, you really shouldn't be playing with CVS versions, no other package
> that I can think of (at least in GNOME CVS) includes things such as this in
> CVS, and it just causes headaches for developers.
>
> I was just about to close the bug, but I thought it might be poilite to check
> with other people.... ;-)
>
I agree with you 100%, CVS is explicitly a developers version, if you don't
have the tools to build it you shouldn't be running it.
MBG
--
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mguenthe@engr.uvic.ca the grease... Sometimes it gets replaced.
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