From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Danjou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure{.in,} question Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:47:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <09k4l72w3b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287996487 24785 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2010 08:48:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 10:48:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIir-0002tG-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:48:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44362 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAIip-0003xc-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55980 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PAIiW-0003wR-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIiV-0003vf-Lu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from coquelicot-s.easter-eggs.com ([213.215.37.94]:59458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIiV-0003kE-H0; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from cigue.easter-eggs.fr (cigue.easter-eggs.fr [10.0.0.33]) by rose.easter-eggs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 568D01409D; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:47:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from jdanjou by cigue.easter-eggs.fr with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PAIiR-0004UU-J2; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:47:39 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <09k4l72w3b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:07:36 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132081 Archived-At: On Sun, Oct 24 2010, Glenn Morris wrote: > I have wondered whether configure even needs to be in the repository. Me too. Almost all project I know using which are using autoconf do not store the configure file for obvious reasons you cited. I really think it's bad practice to store that in the repository. It's like you were storing .o files. :) --=20 Julien Danjou // =E1=90=B0 http://julien.danjou.info