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Sat Jan 24 16:09:19 CET 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-January/137863.html

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015, at 03:00, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 20 January 2015 at 10:53, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015, at 19:40, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> >> I was also wondering why files like Python/graminit.c are in the
> >> respository?  They generate spurious merge conflicts.
> >
> > Convenience mostly.
> 
> It also gets us a round a couple of bootstrapping problems, where
> generating some of those files requires a working Python interpreter,
> which you may not have if you just cloned the source tree or unpacked
> the tarball.

We could distribute the generated files in tarballs as part of the
release process.

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