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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:38:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: Files generated by Visual Studio
From: Greg Stein <gstein@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:35, Mathias Bauer <Mathias_Bauer@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 21.06.2011 09:03, Greg Stein wrote:
>>
>> If these files are generated, then why even put them into source
>> control? They can simply be generated on each developers' machine as
>> part of the build.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> This would be a PITA for all developers, especially for those creating
> releases. You can't tell them: here's the source, grab Visual Studio and use
> it to create some more files before you can build the stuff.
>
> Besides that, there are no project files to create them from. And it's also
> possible that these files have been modified in the past.
>
> We don't use Visual Studio for the build, only the compiler. So we don't
> want to rely on its usage.
>
> It may be uncommon at Apache (perhaps even unwanted) to commit generated
> files, but nevertheless my recommendation is to allow to make them part of
> the software grant if that is legally possible. Everything else can be
> discussed later.

Not a problem. We're just talking about different types of "generated
files". I'm concerned about "build outputs", but these are wizard
outputs from the various VS tools. They are one-time outputs, rather
than part of the build process.

Thanks for the clarification!

Cheers,
-g