From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is the autogen directory still needed? Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:17:38 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <526C1552.9040103@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382815073 15786 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2013 19:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:17:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 21:17:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9Mz-0004yu-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:17:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9My-0007Om-Qr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9Mq-0007Od-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9Mi-0006VU-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:59530) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Va9Mi-0006VO-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:17:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C33339E8106 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:17:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U36BUOAs7LBn for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EDA3E39E80F8 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164570 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > I run a daily cron job that > keeps autogen/configure etc updated. > > This requires no effort, but I think it has become pointless, basically > just making noise commits. I agree. The noise causes more trouble than it's worth these days. I'd remove those automatically-generated files from bzr.