Re: CVS commit: gnusrc/gnu/dist/autoconf

[Jim Wise <jwise%draga.com@localhost>]

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I guess my main question is:  what are we optimizing for here?  A small
amount of disk space?

It's not an issue on cvs updates more than once per version imported.
It's a few k of disk space, and it's a divergence between the dist dir
and the imported distribution.  What does it buy us?

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jim Wise wrote:
>
>: Is this really the right thing to do?
>:
>: I've often been concerned that a.) removing large numbers of files from
>: dist/ dubdirectories makes for a bunch of extra work when importing the
>: next version of a package, and that b.) doing so makes for very odd cvs
>: histories if we decide we do want to use those files later -- suppose
>: that we add a flag to autoconf, and want to update the .info
>: documentation -- will we re-add the .texi files at that date?
>
>This is in the interest of keeping the in-tree copy of autoconf at a minimum
>level.  It is not built by default, and will be used to generate exactly one
>file by toolchain maintainers:  src/tools/compat/configure.
>
>If we feel at some point in the future that this copy of autoconf will have
>an expanded role (and I hope not, actually), the .texi files can be re-added
>then.
>
>

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                                Jim Wise
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