A Cry For Sanity

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 25/06/2008, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes schrieb:
>
> > Is there a particular reason we keep generated files (configure,
>  > aclocal.m4, Makefile.in) in the repository?  I ideally like to remove
>  > them for the following reasons:
>
>
> Ideally we should not have to modify the generated files when adding/removing
>  patches. Moving over to quilt or something like the patch system from ooo-build
>  would eliminate this.
>
>

It's a nice idea, but the current system does have a nice simplicity to it IMO.

This also wouldn't solve the problem generally as there are other
configure.ac/Makefile.am changes.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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