Jacob,
[*sigh*]
You said it. About this whole thing. I rather wish this bright idea had
never come to pass. It has delayed the release by months. Oh well.
Still, could we use make(1) for *all* of the testing and not use `ls -t`
I guess it is technically possible, but I somehow feel doubtful about
relying entirely on make. Using ls already has plenty of portability
issues; I shudder to think how many strange problems we'll run into when
we start exercising timing edge cases in make.
Also, it's taken months to get the current code to even be vaguely
usable; I don't much like the idea of starting over.
Also, with Bruno's patch (once I understand it, anyway), I guess the
whole problem goes away. Which would be the best outcome.
Thanks,
Karl
