On 2/4/07, Jim Weirich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Berger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a patch for the clean task, so that it only deletes files, not > > directories. > [...] > > This addresses an earlier email where someone brought up the fact that > > "rake clean" deletes a directory named 'core', not just core files. > > Since I hit it myself recently, I figure I should submit a patch. :) > > Thanks for the suggestion. However, prohibiting CLEAN from deleting > directories feels like it is cutting off the arm to fix a hangnail. > CLEAN should be able to delete any temporary files created during a > build process, and that might include directories. > > I would rather see a solution targeted explicitly at the "core" > directory issue.
Perhaps it would be a good time to bring this up. In setting up my rake tasks I've sort of took the opposite approach to CLEAN and created IGNORE. When building, say a package, I just have it include everything but what's in IGNORE, so there's no need to run 'clean' first. T. _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
