[Dev] Build: generated code

[Nicholas Bastin]

On May 18, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

>
> On May 18, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Mark Jaffe wrote:
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>> Ted,
>>
>> I guess it was not clear that I implied checking in the generated 
>> *.py files so that the "chandler" tree as extracted from CVS would 
>> actually be runnable as-is, without any "build" steps required. Your 
>> statement implied NOT checking in the generated files.
>>
>
> Hmm, I misread what you wrote.  You own the build, so the decision is 
> ultimately up to you, but I do think that this is bad practice.

For what it's worth, I concur with Ted.  In my experience, checking in 
generated code is almost always a bad idea.  For one thing, it is 
possible that the code generated will be different on different 
platforms, even for Python (although less likely, I realize, than for 
something like Yacc).  Also, checking in the generated code can cause 
confusion as to which version of the generation tool it was created 
with - in addition to storing unnecessary diffs of the generated code 
in your source control system, since you really don't care about the 
version history of the generated code.  I think it is reasonable to 
expect that anyone downloading source from CVS would expect that they 
would have to build it, even for something like Chandler.

--
Nick