Re: [Wireshark-commits] master 9079e3a: Cheat and try to fix the generated file manually.

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>]

Hello Evan,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:10:13PM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:
> Storing generated files in source control makes maintenance and patch
> review much harder and puts extra requirements on us to keep things in
> sync. I'd rather the computer do the extra work :)

But in the same time, we can have 3rd party library, like nghttp2[1] (12KLOC) put into git.

This is already more than 30 commits behind nghttp2/lib git HEAD,
nor README.nghttp2 is updated about recent fixes in this forked code.

> We store C files and require a compiler, where we could just store the
> compiled .o files in source control. To me this is much the same thing.

Great to know.

> Balint and Jörg and I discussed that we would eventually like to remove the
> ASN.1 generated source from git as well, and make that a standard part of
> the build process.

I am happy to hear this, please do.
For sure you want also do this for X11 dissector, which for rebuilt only requires
downloading mesa sources.


BR,
Jakub.

[1] I am very sorry Alexis, but I haven't found better example.
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