On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com> wrote: > As it stands right now, the grouping and wrapping of filenames > in MinGW-w64's Makefiles makes tracking or viewing changes in > version control very very hard, and makes it non-obvious what has > changed. > > I propose that it move to a sorted, single-filename-per-line Makefile > style, which will make additions/deletions/changes very easy to understand, > and I volunteer to carry out the change if it is agreed upon. > > Comments, flames, or questions?
I have suggested this multiple times in IRC over the years, and it's always been denied. Usually, the reasoning is the effect on vertical real estate. Some people find it easier to not have to scroll continuously to see everything they want to see. And in truth, the list of import libs is HUGE. The current source listings for the libraries support this. In terms of making things "look better", that's a bike shed that never gets painted. One man's blue is another's green. I don't really buy the version control argument, either. There's only a few files on a line at most. I really don't think this is "very, very hard": -foo.c bar.c baz.c +foo.c baz.c I mean.. honestly.... *two* "very's" ? :P At any rate, if enough people want it, then I'm not going to stand in your way. But I'd like to see more than just a little support for what is otherwise a "whim of the week". Otherwise, next week, three more people will come along asking for it to be yellow. I will say that one thing in particular that I would definitely want to do now that automake 1.14 is out is to make use of the feature I've been begging for since we started -- that is, the ability to have subdirectory makefiles that can reference a parent directory (%reldir%). This would allow putting for instance all of the import libs in lib/Makefile.am without requiring the evils of recursive make nor requiring "../" in every file name. Of course, people need to buy into that, too. Before %reldir% came out, when I floated that idea around, I got the same kind of negative response. Ah, well. Such is the fate of progress :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
