Subject: Re: CVS commit: gnusrc/gnu/dist/autoconf
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/14/2001 15:54:12
And full CVS history is still there. Resurrecting files isn't a huge deal.
James
>On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Jim Wise wrote:
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>: Is this really the right thing to do?
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>: 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?
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>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.
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>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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