Re: What does the file extension ".hg" mean?

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

On 24 Jun 2013, at 00:15, Gavin Lambert wrote:

> Generally speaking, generated files should never be included in a source
> control system.  Doing so [...] carries the risk of having people not realise
> that the files are generated and then modifying or submitting patches for
> those files, which are then lost when the files do get regenerated.

Yes, I can see the sense in that.


> So you really should either be using the tarball, which should have
> everything you need pregenerated, or you should be using an environment such
> as MinGW that lets you run autotools and gmmproc to generate the files
> yourself from the git source.

But not in that.  A better solution might be for gtkmm to work the same way as gtk (i.e. provide its own 
auto-generation tools such that developers can use the compiler of their choice).  It's not as if MSVC is 
some obscure, little used compiler.  Gtkmm's Git repo even provides MSVC build projects - even though they 
can't be used to build from the Git sources!  I'm not sure if there's really much point in them being there.  
I appreciate of course, that all this stuff is work in progress so maybe there's a good argument here for 
updating gtkmm by taking a leaf from gtk's book?  A library that's intended to be buildable with MSVC 
shouldn't still be relying on tools that will only work with a Bourne shell.

John