Re: [Evolution-hackers] libical import

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:10, Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:14, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:

> > I don't like keeping generated files in CVS. If we edit the lex file, or
> > apply changes from upstream, it is likely to cause trouble.

> 	Why ? the time-stamp will be updated on an upstream-merge - and when
> you run make, new lexer source will be generated. If you don't test the

Broken clocks...


> changes before you commit - then people try to compile and it breaks
> unless they have RandomFlex-1.2.3 - but how likely is committing without
> testing ? ;->

I believe the same argument can be made for configure and Makefile.in. A
lot of people have problems with automake et al, problems that would be
solved if you could build CVS source just like a tarball. So shouldn't
we keep that in CVS too?

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Hans Petter