On 03/13/12 07:30, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
[CC:ing Ralf, as I'd like to hear his opinion here]
Reference:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2012-03/msg00078.html>
On 03/13/2012 01:14 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Now that I think about it, I'm not sure whether it was done "by design" from
the beginning,
And I also missed Ralf's answer here:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gsasl.general/52>
So we're in a sort of a tie here: some users think that the current Automake
behaviour is a feature (and I lean toward that position), other ones (with
Ralf among them, apparently) believe it's a bug. Hmmm. What now?
Regards,
Stefano
I would agree with the "feature" camp. Users should be able to create
an empty $(pkgdatadir) - suppose that empty directory is populated by
other methods. They should also be able to not create $(pkgdatadir) as
well as a non-empty $(pkgdatadir).
IMHO - whether this was by design or by accident isn't important.
What's more important is that the behavior is intuitive, and this
behavior (to me) is intuitive.
Robert Boehne
