Re: GOB in source tree?

[Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire@seul.org>]

George writes:
 > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:03:41AM +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > I
 > am wondering why it is necessary to include GOB in the source tree.
 > > Can't the generated C[++] files be included along with the GOB
 > files so > that the C[++] files are compiled but the GOB files are
 > there in case you > want to hack them, for which you need GOB? It
 > would make the build process > significantly shorter to include the
 > generated source and not have to > build and run GOB. I know that
 > many programs that use YACC ship the > generated source so yacc is
 > not required, why is this any different?
 > 
 > It would be one way to handle it.  I'm not sure how to do the
 > automake magic to make that work.
 > 
 > One reason for the current setup is that it truly does prevent
 > people from modifing the generated source code.  What are other
 > people's thoughts on this?

If people want to suggest change in the MDI, they need to go through
the gob file to be consistant.  An alternative will be to have gob as
needed separate package.

Hilaire