[GRASS5] Thought on my CVS problem

[Justin Hickey]

Hello Bernhard

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:26:02AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > Yes, I agree that the compilation or configure output files should
> > be removed from the CVS tree.
> 
> I also agree,
> but we must have them in the tarball,
> so there should be a target to just build them if we remove them from
> the CVS version.
> 
> Not everybody has a recent autoconf or flex/bison installed and 
> properly configured. Which means we are excluding some people from
> using the
> CVS directly. (I do not think it is a problem, but it should be
> noted.)

But these files are platform dependent (especially the autoconf files).
If we were to keep them for those who can't generate them, then we would
need to keep a copy for each platform. This seems to be a lot of trouble
to me. I really don't think we are being thoughtless by asking people to
have proper versions of software that is required to compile grass.
After all, we do that for tcltkgrass.

Just a thought.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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