pyrex .c versioning...

[Martin Pool]

On 6/6/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 07:53 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well both are problematic, but churn is probably more of an issue to
> > me.
> >
> > I've always been of the mind that you shouldn't version auto-generated
> > things.
>
> I tend to flip flop based on audience.
>
> Basically I think versioning auto generated things is ok when you expect
> users [as opposed to devs] to ever run from source. In the squid project
> we have no generated files versioned in our 'dev' branches, and in trunk
> and the per-release branches - the branch users grab - we have configure
> etc - the generated files.

I tergiversate too. On the whole I'd default to not storing the
generated files, and then asking our core non-developer users
(fullermd, etc) whether this is a burden for them.  Since we do
release pretty often and we do make release candidates (which would
contain the generated files) people who cannot generate them can still
run something quite current.

Also it's proposed that we should make nightly debs/tarballs.

-- 
Martin