Hi,
On 21.06.2011 09:38, Greg Stein wrote:
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!
As impatient as I am, I take a one day silence as a "lazy consensus"
that we agree in two point:
- theses files are under the copyright of the developer who contributed
them
- we want to keep them as they are generated by wizards and no build output.
I will update my lists accordingly.
Thanks,
Mathias
