On Jan 24, 2008 9:54 PM, Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paulo J. Matos wrote: > > > > Which files of a autotools project should be kept in a control > > versioning system? > > IMHO, nothing generated goes in the repository. Ever. If that means > some developers are using different tools to generate these files and so > get different results, that's a good thing: it exposes platform > assumptions, which always need to be fixed or documented. If your users > can't figure out how to bootstrap the build, checking generated files > into the system to help them out amounts to ignoring these platform issues. > > I don't mean to imply that bootstrapping a build system is always easy. > Just that the necessary tools and procedures be documented, and as > wide a range of tool versions be allowed as is practical. > > >
Thanks Warren, I think I'll follow your method. Cheers, -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK
