A Cry For Sanity

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 11/07/2008, Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

Thanks. Done.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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