Re: I really would like to get mpg123 with the lame-releated changes out ...

Quoting Thomas Orgis <[email protected]> (from Sun, 27 May 2018  
12:44:30 +0200):

> Am Sat, 26 May 2018 21:43:59 +0200
> schrieb Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]>:
>
>> to me, personally, one show stopper is that the patch contains
>> modifications to generated files such as the ./configure script and all
>> Makefile.in files.
>
> I just did a cvs diff. I was wondering why those files are versioned at
> all. Seemed odd. I figured that the project wants it that way and hence
> changes to those files should be part of a patch.
>
> Well, let's try to strip that out and test things with a current
> checkout from Subversion. I strongly suggest considering removal of
> these auto-generated files from the repository.

History (IIRC):
The generated files are included in the repo so that
  - someone who get's a copy of the most recent versions in the repo  
doesn't need to have the autotools installed.
  - the files are generated by known good versions of the autotools.
  - we have a trace of what was delivered on a release (different  
developers may have different versions installed).

Bye,
Alexander.
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