How to cvs checkout SASL

[Howard Chu]

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:53:54PM -0800, Biswatosh wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> When do u plan to make CVS-Version of SASL user ready?
>>
>>     
>
> The configure script is an autogenerated file and thus should not be
> kept under version control.  CVS is supposed to be developer ready, not
> user ready.
>   
Yes, but there's a difference between a developer and a package 
maintainer. Since the configure script depends on specific versions of 
the autotools, and the requirements differ for different packages, the 
package maintainers ought to create these files and keep them with the 
rest of the source code. As it is I have to maintain 5 different 
versions of autoconf on my machine because of dependencies of this sort.

Likewise, if a source tree uses automake, then a usable set of 
Makefile.in files with maintainer-mode disabled should be part of CVS, 
because independent developers don't need their Makefiles 
auto-regenerating at the drop of a hat, particularly because the 
regeneration will look for tools whose versions may not match those on 
the build machine. Omitting these details is a good way to frustrate 
developers and keep away people who would otherwise be productively 
contributing to the project.

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