On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:35, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21.06.2011 09:03, Greg Stein wrote: >> >> If these files are generated, then why even put them into source >> control? They can simply be generated on each developers' machine as >> part of the build. >> >> Am I missing something? > > This would be a PITA for all developers, especially for those creating > releases. You can't tell them: here's the source, grab Visual Studio and use > it to create some more files before you can build the stuff. > > Besides that, there are no project files to create them from. And it's also > possible that these files have been modified in the past. > > We don't use Visual Studio for the build, only the compiler. So we don't > want to rely on its usage. > > It may be uncommon at Apache (perhaps even unwanted) to commit generated > files, but nevertheless my recommendation is to allow to make them part of > the software grant if that is legally possible. Everything else can be > discussed later.
Not a problem. We're just talking about different types of "generated files". I'm concerned about "build outputs", but these are wizard outputs from the various VS tools. They are one-time outputs, rather than part of the build process. Thanks for the clarification! Cheers, -g
