Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> writes: >> How about putting "generated" files like that into a separate >> subdirectory (e.g. ".../prebuilt"), which is ignored by the non-windows >> builds? >> >> Then on windows, it can simply do "cp .../prebuilt/foo .../foo" instead >> of generating the file using bison or whatever. > > Most (all?) of the people working on the flex and bison files are on > Linux. Because of that, I can almost guarantee the special "for > Windows" copies that aren't used on Linux will lag. In some ways, > that's even worse because we'll likely end up with various types of > spurious bug reports from people trying to build on Windows.
Er, but that's no different than the status quo, which apparently already has pre-generated files, albeit with an annoying conflict-generating name. [In fact, you seem to be the person arguing that the pre-generated files are necessary!] If it's decided that it's acceptable to require windows users to have bison etc, installed, and to get rid of the pre-generated files in git, then great, all problems are solved. If that's not acceptable though, and it's decided that pre-generated files should be kept, it seems nice to at least avoid the current annoying conflicts for the vast majority that are using linux ... right? -Miles -- Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
