On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 01:52:33AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: >> > On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 07:03:53PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> >> >> An alternative would be to add a parameter to LaTeX::LaTeX() that says >> >> whether to do a fresh compile. >> > >> > This alternative seems the most logical one to me. Add a bool parameter >> > (clean_start or similar) which is false by default to tell the >> > constructor to start afresh by removing previous leftovers. >> >> OK, attached is an updated patch. > > What about renaming deleteFilesOnError as removeAuxiliaryFiles?
I agree that changing the name would make sense. But in that function we remove the main output file (e.g. PDF) I believe so I don't know if "auxiliary" is fitting. How about removeTempFiles or removeCachedFiles or removeLaTeXFiles? Scott