On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, NightStrike wrote: > >> Shouldn't the onus be on me, as the project maintainer, to accept that >> risk and craft the wildcards properly? I for one would wager heavily >> that the probability of that being a problem is FAR less than the >> current problems of maintaining the source file list. Doing it >> manually has already proven so error-prone as to cause significant >> lost time. > > The problem is not so much the crafting of wildcards as it is unintended > "accidents" in the filesystem. For my own project I do have some bits which > are based on wildcards and several times files have been bundled up which I > did not intend to be included.
Ok, so again, I should be allowed to accept that *potential* risk as being far less than the current situation of *actual* risk which is causing problems. If I knew anything about Perl, I'd just do it myself, but alas, the automake source confounds me :(