On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dirk Pranke<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Darin Fisher<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think we need to make it possible for the buildbots to run in a mode where
>> there are absolutely no generated files output into the source directory.
>
> Insofar as I've had a couple of checkins break builds because of this,
> I support the idea of "fixing" this, but I'm not sure that moving
> generated project files of the source tree is the way to go. What
> problem are you really trying to solve?

Darin and I already made arguments for out-of-tree builds two weeks ago
in the thread "Generating files in source tree considered harmful"
two weeks ago.  To summarize:
- darin and I both like it because we're used to doing it that way
from previous projects
- cross-compilation often requires different generated files for
different targets,
  may as well put them in the output directory (not that we're going to support
  cross-compilation any time soon)
I think what it comes down to is: whoever wants to solve
the problems we're hitting should just go ahead and draft
a solution, people will probably live with whichever solution
works.
- Dan

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