[geos-devel] Re: [postgis-devel] Re: CVS to SVN move

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Wed Jul 26 20:19:31 EDT 2006


Paul Ramsey wrote:
> The usual issues apply to putting generated files into the repository:
> if different people with different swigs generate these files they will
> potentially clobber each other in the repository and even generate
> conflicts.
> 
> A checks out
> B checks out
> A generates and updates and commits
> B generates and updates, conflict!

Yes, this is the same situation as keeping ./configure script in the
repo and then every run of autogen.sh will introduce problems.

If geos.py is generated file, then 'make dist' could operate this
file optionally, depending on SWIG wrappers are build or not.

Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net



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