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Re: Don't require flex

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:47:51 -0800
Subject: Re: Don't require flex
References: <20070127071517.0802272B228@mrs2.apple.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701271436340.11423@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <45BCEB97.7070705@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701282136010.10489@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> Indeed.  If we feel it's necessary to include generated files in
>> releases, we can do that, but we should be removing generated files from
>> our repository, not adding more.  A nice project, for someone with time,
>> would be to remove all the current generated files, perhaps replacing
>> them with a script and/or Makefile target to rebuild them, only for
>> release tarballs.
> 
> ...and snapshots, I believe.  (It's quite possible that by "release
> tarballs" you referred to both our releases and snapshots, I just
> wanted to make sure we keep the latter in mind as well. ;-)

I agree.  I think that snapshots should be "preview releases", from a
structural point of view; i.e., if you know how to build a snapshot, you
 also know how to build a release.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark@codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x713

References:
- Don't require flex
  - From: Mike Stump
- Re: Don't require flex
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: Don't require flex
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: Don't require flex
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer

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