A Cry For Sanity

[Lillian Angel]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:34 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   
>>> I believe that the majority by far are people actively hammering those
>>> two files in the IcedTea repository rather than the 'common builder' who
>>> just wants to download and try the latest and greatest.  We have very
>>> little overhead in producing a release, so producing these regularly
>>> and keeping the tree free of generated autotools files seems the best
>>> option.
>>>
>>> IcedTea is a fairly unique project.  Not many projects effectively result
>>> in two files getting changed by just about each and every patch.  I think
>>> this is also the cause of some VCS issues we have, but not all.
>>>
>>>       
>> [Trying again as the removed generated files are so big the patch is
>> too big for the mailing list]
>>
>> So shall I commit this?
>>
>> 2008-07-07  Andrew John Hughes  <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>
>>
>>        * ChangeLog: Fix typos.
>>        * Makefile.in,
>>        * configure,
>>        * aclocal.m4: Removed.
>>     
>
> Yes please. Could you also update the INSTALL file to mention running
> autoreconf?
>   

As well as the webpage and wikipedia entry.


Thanks!
Lillian