I think the possibility of deleting user data should be taken seriously. Exactly who is doing the deletion (configure vs. make) is immaterial. It's also not right to argue that since a majority of users don't expect to lose data, it's OK to silently delete data for a minority of them.
I think we should either opt in to auto-clobbering or prompt to clobber by default and allow users to opt out of the prompt. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Ralph Giles <gi...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 13-04-17 12:36 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > >> It /could/, sure. However, I consider auto clobbering a core build >> system feature (sheriffs were very vocal about wanting it). As such, it >> needs to be part of client.mk. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) > > Ok. A makefile deleting things is less surprising that an a configure > script doing so. > > -r > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
