On May 20, 2013 10:56 PM, "Dirkjan Ochtman" <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > I'm torn on this issue. > > > > See: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Wildcards > > > > (Please read that whole section.) > > > > Summary is: > > > > * Wildcards make it easy to distribute the wrong files (either too many, or > > too few) > > > > * Wildcards are not portable > > Yes, I understand the concerns. On the other hand, I don't think most > of those concerns apply cleanly to for example a Sphinx project. In > particular, Sphinx already complains if src files are either missing > or unused, so you'll get warnings about that. And Sphinx populates the > build directory from scratch every time, so problems with the HTML > output also seem fairly unlikely. On the other hand, forgetting to > update the file lists in the Makefile.am will have no effect on > building the docs, but will fail make distcheck. To me, at least, in > this context, DRY a bigger concern to me. > > To be fair, portability is a concern. Dave, does the typical Windows > build environment already have a find tool available to it? (Either > just some compiled GNU tools or a full Cygwin environment?) > > > Please also consider that with Benoit's rcouch merge, we're moving away from > > Autotools entirely (I believe), so we will have the chance to throw off / > > simplify a lot of this stuff. > > Ah, yes. Do we have a time frame for that?
sometime this month but before the next. - benoit > > > What are your thoughts having read that section? > > Still the same, in this particular context, for the reasons explained above. > > Cheers, > > Dirkjan
