> >>> I thought the consensus of the discussion was that this was not
> >>> necessary.  It sure doesn't strike me as a good idea.
> 
> > Also, keep in mind that in the end most folks will be building
> > under MinGW using a release tarball, that has those output files.
> > We haven't gotten a MinGW release yet, so they have to build all
> > the stuff.
> 
> Well, that's a fair argument, but why don't you get Marc to set up
> nightly snapshots for the WIN32_DEV branch?  That only costs cycles
> in the short term.  Polluting CVS with updates to derived files will
> cost us CVS storage forever.

Um, why not just have someone with local CVSROOT access just rm -f the
,v file when the WIN32_DEV branch ceases to be useful?  In the
meantime, have the flex/bison files in CVS.  Few will notice or care
in the meantime other than possibly CVSup administrators.  Just a
thought.

-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden

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