[Xfce4-commits] CVS: xfce4/xfdesktop/src .cvsignore,NONE,1.1

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Thu Mar 25 18:49:54 CET 2004


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> El mié, 24-03-2004 a las 16:14, Brian J. Tarricone escribió:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > 
> > > Op wo 24-03-2004, om 22:55 schreef Jasper Huijsmans:
> > > > Op wo 24-03-2004, om 22:25 schreef Brian J. Tarricone:
> > > > > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Brian,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please don't ignore Makefile.in from CVS ('*.in' in your cvsignore)
> > > > > > unless we take the common decision to do so.
> > > > > 
> > > > > whoops, i just meant to do that in the po/ subdir, since it isn't in CVS 
> > > > > (should it be?) and appears to be generated.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > That is indeed the exception. po/ directories have a Makefile.in.in and
> > > > the Makefile.in is generated by configure. Make distclean should remove
> > > > it (I didn't actually check if it does).
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It does. Same goes for POTFILES.
> > > 
> > > BTW, I'm all for removing the files generated by autogen.sh from CVS, if
> > > we all agree. 
> > 
> > /me agrees wholeheartedly
> > yes, it's 'nice' to have them in there for users, but i think most (if 
> > not all) the people that would use cvs would have the proper autotools 
> > installed, and if not, tough.  i think we should be making some 4.1 dev 
> > releases anyway, which would make this point less important.  having all 
> > the extra files in there is just annoying (to me, anyway).
> 
> I agree with the removal since CVS testers are way down from xfce3 days,
> although I am not annoyed by them. Removing them will certainly make for
> faster updates/commits to CVS, which is more important for developers.

ok, so that's 3 votes in favour of removing autogenerated files.  
benedikt?  olivier?  anyone else?

	-brian




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