Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Colin D Bennett <address@hidden> writes:
> > I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository.  If
> > people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn
> > branches, then I think it's fine to require them to have Ruby.  For
> > released tarballs that we expect non-developers to use, we just need to
> > generate the *.mk files and include them in the tarball.
>
> I do not have problems with this.  Besides this, it will stop people
> from sending in patches with .mk changes in it :-)

I think Okuji's objection is based on fact that it makes it harder for 
people to compile from sources. Now what if we would generate those 
files when making a release? Of course this should be enabled to 
script/makefile to make it automatically so it is not forgotten ;)

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen