Follow-up Comment #3, bug #66050 (group make): I am not a fan having the --shuffle argument modify the behavior of $(wildcard ...) as they are completely disjoint facilities that have nothing to do with each other. IMO it will be confusing.
The result of wildcard has swung back and forth between sorted and not sorted
over time. If there is a need to have an unsorted variation I think we will
have to do something different like add a new function or similar.
But, I don't really understand what the benefit of having an unsorted result
from the wildcard function would be. The order in which files are returned
from readdir() is famously undefined, so really they COULD be returned in
sorted order or any other order the system chooses. Since the order is
totally arbitrary, I don't understand what the goal or purpose of preferring
that order is?
I feel like you have a deeper requirement that is not obvious from this
enhancement request, and it would probably be more fruitful to discuss that
deeper requirement directly rather than discussing downstream changes like
this. We can discuss here, or probably more easily on the bug-make@gnu.org
mailing list.
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