On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:38:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We have three levels of cleaning that need to be expressed: > > > > 1) clean out the .o files [before rebuilding] > > 2) clean out the results of running ./configure (restore everything to the > > same point that you unpacked apache.org/dist/aprutil-1.0.tar.gz) > > 3) return to the point right after a CVS checkout > > Step 2 does not exist in Apache as it now stands, and nobody has been > clamoring for it so far. It has never existed AFAICS.
As a few people have mentioned, "distclean" (type (2)) is pretty common (Roy mentioned rsync, I'll chime in with Python, Neon, Berkeley DB, PHP, Python's MySQL interface, and all automake-based projects such as Subversion). And I *do* see that Apache has (2) and it is called "distclean". :-) > As for step 3, I would be much happier with an external program like > cvsclean. We only have about six files in the whole tree to deal with (3). I went for the simple, straightforward approach. > > I believe that we *do* need these three types of cleaning. Does this make > > sense to you? > > Sure. I am still not convinced that we need all three, and regardless, we > shouldn't be duplicating files, so pleast fix that. As I mentioned in my previous reply... we are not duplicating any files in those lists. I presume that your note implies your veto is lifted? Thanks, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
