The contents of these files don't seem so different to me that they
couldn't be consolidated, perhaps with some command-line overrides
or similar. Or, maybe some of them are just not needed; do we
really have to be able to build with nmake and smake?
How about moving them to a subdirectory,
From: Edward Welbourne e...@opera.com
Cc: psm...@gnu.org, make-...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:08:02 +0100
How about moving them to a subdirectory, where they could bit-rot out
of sight?
In the presence of a version control system, even one as basic as CVS,
In the presence of a version control system, even one as basic as CVS,
deletion isn't fundamentally worse than leaving them to bit-rot out of
[sight] - they can always be recovered from the version-control system
Not for people who only get the release tarballs.
Good point - didn't think of
On 01/17/2012 06:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
For sure once I actually take the plunge and move to a real source
code control system [...]
May I suggest bzr? It is a GNU project and is used by Emacs, wget,
and a few others on Savannah.
Git please. It's fast, used by important GNU projects
On 01/17/2012 09:04 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
Git please. It's fast, used by important GNU projects [1] ... [SNIP]
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git
And FTR also:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git
