Re: heads up RE autoconf C23 vs legacy code

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 06:02:41PM +0100, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I wonder if we should start committing the generated files to CVS.
> > For example, I don't expect another release of scmcvs, so we should be
> > safe to generate them now and then never touch them again.
> 
> That goes against the "vendored code bad" principle.   We'd also not get
> bugfixes to autoconf.

I was not talking about the ones that just come with a configure.ac
and we have to generate everything.

I meant the ones where we patch a Makefile.am or configure.ac, which
is, I think, the bigger part.
 Thomas