HEADSUP: Adding auto*generated files to rtems-4.11's git

[Sebastian Huber]

On 07/26/2012 05:13 PM, Pavel Pisa wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2012 15:34:46 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> >On 07/25/2012 02:42 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> > >On 07/25/2012 02:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> > >>Hi,
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>As mentioned several times before, I'll soon gradually add some more
>>>> > >>auto*tools
>>>> > >>generated source files (Makefile.in, configure, aclocal.m4) to the
>>>> > >>rtems-4.11
>>>> > >>source tree in git.
>>> > >
>>> > >What is the benefit?
>> >
>> >No bootstrapping required, no autotools required for "occasional users",
>> >certain classes of bugs and users-mistakes will become more visible,
>> >because files are pregenerated.
> I would like express my humble vote against generated files in git.
> On the other hand they are fully appropriate and wanted in snapshots
> and releases. If the auto-tools invocation is integrated into
> snapshot automation tools than it is enough. Usual occasional
> user should use release or in the worst case snapshot.
>
> Generated files in GIT usually cause more problems than they solve
> in long term. But I agree that they can make life easier
> for newcomers sometimes as well. In RTEMS case, how big
> are problems with use of pre-installed auto-tool on different
> distributions. I did not have much problems till now.

This is exactly my opinion.  I would remove the automatically generate files 
from Git.  For snapshots (which we don't have up to now) it would be useful.

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