>>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> I have always tried to have maintainer-clean revert the source
Gary> tree to the state it was in when freshly checked out of CVS.
This is easy enough to do; there is a tool in the `cvsutils' (Pavel's,
not Alexandre's) which will remove anything not in cvs. This tool
works offline.
Gary> What is the right thing to do here? Should we write a custom
Gary> cvs-clean for each project? Maybe stub the rules to take care
Gary> of the recursion, but (beyond the maintainer-clean files) remove
Gary> only the files listed in CVSCLEAN variable?
I'd prefer not, since we don't even know that people will be using
cvs. It isn't a very good name.
Automake's first priority is to follow the GNU Standards. We could
add a new, universal clean target if we found it worthwhile. My guess
is that it is not. I doubt I've ever used maintainer-clean except
when testing it.
Tom
