[asterisk-dev] Removing configure from tree

[Andrew Latham]

I am not on the IRC but I agree with Sean here as always. The README and
any documentation would need to be updated before removal.

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM Joshua C. Colp <jcolp at sangoma.com> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> Sean Bright brought up on IRC the removal of configure from git. This may
> be impactful since some users (not necessarily developers) may not
> understand the build system when building from branches (not tags or
> releases) and become confused when configure is not present which is why I
> disagreed with doing so on IRC. I'm curious though what others think of
> such a change. I think to be acceptable it would need:
>
> 1. To regenerate configure if configure.ac has been changed, so that
> developers don't have a stale configure
> 2. To provide instructions if configure is not present and "make" is run,
> I'm on the fence on automatically running it
> 3. Releases (and tags) would need to have a generated configure in them
>
> Thoughts?
>
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> Joshua C. Colp
> Asterisk Project Lead
> Sangoma Technologies
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