dove@yosemite-sam (05/27/85)
From: Web Dove <dove@yosemite-sam> In view of the excellent mechanism for receiving updates at tcp sites, (i.e. rcp) I recommend that the two files that are most likely to be site-specific (paths.h and config.h) be distributed as paths.h.dist and config.h.dist. In this way, if the local site has modified versions, they won't get overwritten when an update is performed. If no paths.h or config.h exists, the makefile can copy the .dist files. If the .dist files are more recent then a warning can be printed. I say this because I am concerned about inexperienced maintainers at our site requesting an update and losing all information about local paths and options. I suppose the same is true of any file since they might be locally modified, but we have been able to put local lisp files in a separate directory (by changing the paths.h) and it seems to me that many more sites are likely to change one or both of those files than any other file.