30 Nov
2006
30 Nov
'06
5:36 a.m.
Ulf,
The problem with that is that someone getting the sources might get the idea that the preprocessed file is an actual source file and try to modify it (or just make sense of it, imagine someone trying to read a happy parser...). Including parts of dist in the tarball makes it clear that what you get is not a vanilla source distribution.
Point taken. But ;), still, for instance, the Haskell files generated by our attribute grammar system all start with -- do not edit; automatically generated by UU.AG Anyway, I'm not the best pick for defending the way it's done right now: I can perfectly live with either of these two alternatives, I guess. Cheers, Stefan