On 5/30/2005 8:19 PM, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> Well, it _is_ a source package.  I don't think we should be shipping
>> pre-built things with it.
> 
> This philosophy would suggest shipping `configure.ac', and expecting
> people to run "autoconf" for themselves :)
> 
> It is common practice to ship pregenerated files with source tarballs;
> we do it in the Postgres release tarballs for yacc and lex files, as
> well as the SGML docs.

It is common practice for things that require not-so-standard tools or 
specific versions of those tools. DocBook and the likes are IMHO good 
candidates to fall into that category.


Jan

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