Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:09:22 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: libata update posted |
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:09:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> My motivation is not bitkeeper-specific: I dislike the practice of > checking build-generated files into an SCM of any sort.
OK
(Up to a point I can agree with you. On the other hand..
I am a mathematician, and some of my generated files take weeks of computation. Maybe once they are available one no longer wants to regard them as generated files. Something similar holds for files generated by software that is not widely available. Maybe the software is commercial. Maybe it only runs on a different architecture. Or maybe it was a specially patched version. In the case of defkeymap.c (where nothing has changed for over five years), when a key type is added, it is generated by a private version that is not widely available. For Linus or whoever makes distributions, who does not possess the software required to generate defkeymap.c, it is just a source file.)
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