Keith Marshall <keithmarsh...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: |On 13/04/13 14:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote: |>> Any comments? | |Some projects do commit configure, others don't. IMO, it is better if |it is *not* committed, but IIRC it has been there, in groff's CVS, for |as long as I've been associated with the project. I would be in favour |of removing it now...
Please don't change this friendly current situation. It is really a terrible thing that many projects do no longer / not ship a self-contained repository, but one that requires an immense amount of utilities just to create a runnable configure script. I've just set up a completely new box and added perl(1), mksh(1), vim(1) and some others […] -- and it is so nice *not* to need this huge toolchain. E.g., GNU gettext alone has a 70 MB (!) checkout (with the gettext.c of it consuming 10820 bytes). Even if i had a locale package cache, being able to simply update a repository on releases / bugfixes and to simply recompile the package is definitely a quality-of-implementation in my eyes. |Keith. Ciao, --steffen
