Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove generated VM from git?

[email protected] (Florian Anderiasch)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 26.08.2014 22:30, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2014, at 21:08, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> That would make building PHP for non-internals person harder and the
>> list of dependencies they need to get right longer. While providing zero
>> added value. And yes, there are a lot of non-internals persons building
>> PHP. Sometimes they may even use git.
> 
> Why would a non-internals person want to build PHP from git? That’s just making things harder on themselves. Besides PHP itself (should my proposal succeed), you need other extra dependencies, including a lexer generator if Nikita’s proposal succeeds.
>

Why would an internals person (for various vague definitions of this
term) install php only because they want to build it? Maybe I'm the
exception here but I am regularly building various versions of php on my
laptop without having any version *installed*.

I also would prefer to keep this out of the dependencies.

Greetings,
Florian
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