>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russ> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You miss one point: killing this impedance problem. When Autoconf >> adds new files, e.g., autom4te.cache, Automake is immediately >> obsoleted, because it does not remove this file. Russ> That's not exactly a horrible failure mode. Russ, you are member of this list, and as such, your opinion is not that of a regular naive user. Sure you can answer to me that you need to be an expert to use Autoconf, but then, I'm precisely trying to kill this. Russ> People can just add it to the list of files to clean. No, people _have to_. Russ> The important part is to somewhere document the list of files Russ> that configure can create so that people who don't want to use Russ> Automake can add them to the makefile rules that they prefer to Russ> maintain by hand. I don't agree. The important part is that I, as a maintainer of the foo package, focus on my task, and be relieved of all these stupid details. It has to work for me, not the converse.
