Re: [Cgdb-devel] Cgdb port for Cygwin

[Ronald Landheer-C. <bly...@us...>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:22:23PM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > > Are there any objections against me
> > > removing the generated files (Makefile.in, configure, etc.) from the branch?
> 
> > What does everyone think the best way to go is?
> 
> Sorry I have been so slow at replying. I have been fixing up the house I
> just bought. Trying to make it livable by Saturday :).
> 
> You just have to love diversity and computer science. We currently have
> 
> 2 for removing the files
>    cygwin packager (Ronald)
>    developer (Peter)
> 
> 2 for leaving the file
>    debian packager (Robert)
>    developer (Me)
> 
> 1 who doesn't care
>    developer (Mike)
> 
> I think it takes 2/3 of the developer's and 3/4 of the packagers to pass any 
> CVS legislation. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong? :)
> 
> Unless, there are some other reasons besides bloating CVS, I would
> prefer to keep the generated files. Currently, I don't mind having the
> CVS sandbox be larger as long as the user gets more functionality out
> of it. Which happens to be the case.
> 
> I have received several patches from people that fix bugs in CGDB. I
> don't really want to make them go through extra steps of learning how
> the build process works, or installing other packages, in order to make
> simple changes to CGDB.
> 
> If it turns out that keeping them in the tree is doing harm, we should
> defiantly remove them.
OK, I'll leave them in :|

rlc