Re: [PATCH] Install new autoreconf files.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 06:21:22PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Distributed-Development.html
>
>However, if it I did something wrong, then let's talk about what needs 
>to be changed.
>
it's not wrong per se. it's more of a philosophy thing, whether you want 
to do pure source control, or want to veer toward configuration 
management. at the extreme end, you would be committing binaries for 
every supported platform for each release. i'm a source control purist, 
and would therefore delete (and gitignore) every file that is somehow 
generated by/from something else in the repo.

if there actually are any version dependencies between gettext and the 
surrounding autoconf infra, one can code a constraint into configure.ac.  
that would be a problem for people building from git with mismatched 
versions who somehow still want to build translations. i wouldn't feel 
constrained by this hypothetical user group.