Also sprach Akim Demaille: } >>>>> "Steven" == Steven G Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } } >> They don't have understood the point. And then, why keep the .o } >> too? And the .deps? } } Steven> Again, it's a matter of tradeoffs and optimizing for the } Steven> common case. On the one hand, programs spewing files as a } Steven> side-effect that the user didn't explicitly request is } Steven> generally undesirable. On the other hand, developers change } Steven> source code files and recompile *very* often, so the extra } Steven> speed (which can be orders of magnitude for .o!) is worth the } Steven> filesystem litter. } } By we just do agree here! autom4te.cache appears when autoconf, } autoheader or automake is run. We are not talking about end-users here.
So, to summarize the complaints, we had a cache file (config.cache) which was useful to a small number of people but deemed "harmful" to the majority because of various compelling arguments given on this list. We now have a similar situation with the autom4te.cache directory. It's useful only to a small number of people and an annoyance (read: not harmful, but a nuisance) to the larger number of people. By Steven's own reasoning, it should be disabled by default and given a flag so that those who need it will have it. -- || Bill Wendling [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Coding Simian
