>> Please don't change this friendly current situation.
>>
>> It is really a terrible thing that many projects do no longer / not
>> ship a self-contained repository, but one that requires an immense
>> amount of utilities just to create a runnable configure script.
>
> configure would *always* be shipped within released source tarballs;
> however, it is a *generated* file, and does *not* belong in a CVS
> repository, IMO.
Correct. Please have in mind that the CVS is *not* intended to be
user friendly, but to be friendly to the developer. The less
generated files are present, the easier it is to maintain.
Werner