<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 7:15 AM Jaco Kroon <<a href="mailto:jaco@uls.co.za">jaco@uls.co.za</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">
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The norm for many/most projects seem to be:<br>
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<p>1. No generated files in git, ever, even for tags/release
branches. In this case <a href="http://configure.ac" target="_blank">configure.ac</a> yes, configure no.</p>
<p>2. Generated files in archives, ie, in the downloadable
asterisk-x.y.z.tar.gz file there should be a ./configure.<br>
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For me this makes sense since MOST users will simply download the
tgz and move on with their lives, thus no change to their
workflow.</p>
<p>For developers (checking out from git), surely running an extra
./bootstrap.sh prior to ./configure isn't too much to ask?</p>
<p>Thus there is a change required to the release process for
generating the archive (which is where github seems to have a
pitfall in that automated download archives won't work as expected
unless there is an option to first run a script on the checked out
tree) to first run ./bootstrap.sh prior to creating the archive.</p></div></blockquote><div>Some users do get tags from git, instead of downloading the tarball. I don't think changing that is really worth it. Adding generation of configure to the release process is minor.</div><div><br></div><div>It would only be if main branches (18, 20, master) were checked out that you'd need to do it manually.</div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#073763">Joshua C. Colp</font></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#073763">Asterisk Project Lead</font></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#073763">Sangoma Technologies</font></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font color="#073763">Check us out at <a href="http://www.sangoma.com" target="_blank">www.sangoma.com</a> and <a href="http://www.asterisk.org" target="_blank">www.asterisk.org</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>