Bindings generator and Qt 4.5

[Casey Link]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> 2008/10/9 Peter Zhou <peterzhoulei at gmail.com>:
>>> ok, then why not committing the generated files two months ago in the first
>>> place which should save lots of Ian's and my effort? I thought committing
>>> the generated files violated the KDE/open source concept.
>>
>> Committing the generated files is simply a convenience. We aren't
>> changing the licensing of the generator, or restricting it's access.
>
> There are some legal implications, since the generated code doesn't
> fullfill GPL requirements for human readable source code. So we have
> to keep the generator in some way.
>
> But anyways, I don't like the idea of committing the generated files
> since it will balloon the size of any future git repo, 14M of source
> code can only be compressed so much. And future versions of the
> generated code could be a lot different and not comrpess well with it.
> Commiting generated code is just blah.
>
> I'll talk to Kent about whats up with the generator.
>
> Ian

Maybe it can be put in it's own directory, outside the tree (maybe
not?), so it can easily be excluded from repos.

KC