Should pregenerated Ragel output be committed to the repo?

[niklata]

I don't know how much of an inconvenience it is to require Ragel to be installed when building ndhc. If it's enough of a problem that it deters people from trying out or using ndhc, then a simple solution is to bundle pregenerated Ragel output files into the repository. This approach is already seen with many other projects for quite some time, such as fftw and its ocaml-generated output that most users are never aware of.

This of course will require a bit of effort to make sure that on my local machines the files are always rebuilt as I test, but that's easily done.

Would this be helpful?

[niklata]

I've done this in the process of converting to solely using GNU Make as the build system.