On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:32:10AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:04:47PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > > This removes support for "Include <somedir>", by the argument that > > include dirs will just trip people up unexpectedly, and "Include > > <somedir>/*" is equivalent if they really want that behaviour. (Although > > the ability to recurse into subdirectories is also removed, I don't > > think that's particularly useful either) > > Why do we want to remove the "Include <somedir>" feature that has > been there for a while? I'm not sold on removing that so quickly > without a good rationale. -- justin
The rationale goes: the feature is not really usable (you can't use it easily with any editor which creates config files), and has surprising behaviour (it works fine until you change a config file). I'd be surprised if very many people are using it, and they can still get the same effect using Include dir/* (except for the recursion). joe
