From: Brandon C. <ca...@nr...> - 2009-03-31 23:13:52
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Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote: > If we don't want the configure files we can just use the > libpng-x.y.x-noconfig.tar.gz > as input. > > I don't see why we'd not want to distribute them, though. It seems that the > tarballs with configure are much more populare than the noconfig ones. They should definitely be distributed in the tarballs. > I'm not worried much about saving a few kbytes in the repo. It's already > pretty efficient: 1.3Gbytes of tarballs squeezed down to about 5Mb. Yeah, it's not the space. It's the fact that the history of changes of the machine generated files is not useful or interesting. They change with _every_ single release and their changes only serve as a distraction from the changes to the _real_ human created content. If you decide to track them in the repository, just know that this is non-standard. From what I understand, most projects intentionally do not track machine generated files. -brandon |