From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Korb To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Per Bothner , "Kaveh R. Ghazi" Subject: Re: Can we remove bison output from cvs? Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <369E1468.C48CEEA5@datadesign.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00529.html Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Per Bothner wrote: > > The cvs archive is primarily for developers, plus people who want to > > be on the bleeding edgs. In both cases, I think it is reasonable > > to require that people have bison+makeinfo installed. > > I believe that requiring bison, and perhaps makeinfo as well, should not > be that much of a problem. > > However, please do not make it a requirement to install various additional > packages like auto* for CVS users, both for reasons of disk space on guest > accounts and time to install these tools on various platforms. Can the repository be split? I.e. the main repository contains the hand crafted text files and a secondary repository contains derived text for people without the "proper" tools. Releases would, of course, have to contain a merge of the trees. For anyone to build without all the development tools, they would have to cvs-get both trees and do a symlink merge a la "mkmerge" or a fairly straight forward script.