On 2019-09-29, sebb wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 17:21, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Projects that have a configure script usually include that in the source >> distribution but not in the source repository (at least for autotools >> users). > But is that correct? This is what people expect. As others have already pointed out it is very common to not check in the configure script but to include it with source tarballs. Users can be expected to have male installed but only few of them will install autotools. > Surely the source archive should only contain source that is in the > source repo? I'm not sure this is true for generated artifacts that can be verified easily. Also I'm pretty sure some other C based projects of the ASF do ship a generated configure script as part of the source tarball as well. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
