[PD-dev] automake in git

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:13 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> On 2010-07-15 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> That rather tedious enumeration is something that rarely changes and
>> provides error checking where automatic enumeration does not.  A  
>> build
>> system should know if any of the relevant files are missing, and it
>> should ignore all non-relevant files.  Therefore tedious  
>> enumeration is
>> often the best practice.
>>
>
> sure sometimes this is true.
> in other cases, it boils down to a human-written list that contains
> files that were non-relevant from the beginning...

Which files are non-relevant that are included in extra/Makefile?

> anyhow, i'm not so objecting enumeration, but i'm very much objecting
> enumeration of files for extra/pd~/ in extra/Makefile. shouldn't  
> they be
> enumerated in extra/pd~/Makefile?


Or how about making 'extra' have a flat directory structure, that  
would also simplify things.  The symlinking in the existing extra  
makefiles is horrendous, IMHO. I've wasted too much time on those  
kludges.

.hc

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