On 11/2/15, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Philosophically, I think of links as build artifacts, which are rarely
>> stored in an scm. I do avoid them as much as possible, but I've
>> occasionally wondered: does anybody manage the links as the build
>> artifacts
>> of a script, and keep the script itself under version control?
>>
> We used to, but now use the vpath directive in GNU make, so longer need
> symlinks.

After I posted this, I thought a Makefile (still to manage actual
symlinks) would be an improvement over a shell script; you're punting
on symlinks completely (using VPATH). How has VPATH (or the previous
shell script) treated you as a symlink manager/replacement ?

-bch


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