On 10/12/13 18:48, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What about deleted files? This will break builds... > > I'm aware of that. Usually the left over files cause no problems, but > I can think of some (crappy) build system that just compiles > everything that you throw at it in which case renamed files would > cause conflicts during compilation. > > I've tried a few packages and I had no problems so far. For me the > possibility to do incremental builds outweighs the possible problems. > Fortunately I don't use many packages that still use SVN.
There will be plenty of build systems that will use @.c (made up psuedo-make syntax) to compile all files. Lets weigh this up: - incremental builds are a big gain - it is would seem more likely files are added than removed - we have the -C option to do a clean build if needed (a.k.a current behavior) I'd suspect that anyone doing an incremental build that failed would be likely to try a clean build anyway. So, I think this is a net gain and should be pulled. @Dave: does that make sense to you? Allan
