Nagios Support Forum

Hi,

in my opinion auto generated should not reside in the repository for
the following reasons.

- Versioning these files does not make much sense, because they are
generated automatically, so changes happen artless, are reproducible
and last but not least do not include any real knowledge.
- Demand the same autoconf / automake versions of all developers is
quite restrictive especially if they are working on more than one
project
- Assume as little as possible about autotools themselves, e. g. do
not expect identical versions of autotools to generate a bit by bit
identical configuration particularly when using different platforms.
- Also having these files in the repository can be misunderstood: are
they modified by the project or really plain auto generated?
- Last but not least: these files are quite large and why should every
developer have to check them out? Do not assume that every developer
has a broadband connection to the internet available all the time.



Thanks.

Tobias





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