Re: New Feature Submission for GNU Make

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Robinson
Howard, Thank you for your feedback. I think an example would best justify the improvements that trimpath and relpath would bring to GNU Make. In fact, I will give the actual example that motivated me to develop trimpath the relpath in the first place. We can generalize from that starting point

Re: New Feature Submission for GNU Make

2011-05-30 Thread Howard Chu
Ben Robinson wrote: Eli, Thank you for your constructive criticism regarding my submission to GNU Make. I perceive the critiques to fall into three categories (documentation, justification and code improvements) which I will respond to in order. *Documentation*: You are correct, these functio

Re: New Feature Submission for GNU Make

2011-05-30 Thread Ben Robinson
Eli, Thank you for your constructive criticism regarding my submission to GNU Make. I perceive the critiques to fall into three categories (documentation, justification and code improvements) which I will respond to in order. *Documentation*: You are correct, these functions remove only "redunda

Re: New Feature Submission for GNU Make

2011-05-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 21:45:38 -0700 > From: Ben Robinson > > I am submitting a patch which adds two new functions to GNU Make. Thanks. Please wait for Paul's word about inclusion of these in Make. What's below are a few comments based on a first impression from the code. > $(trimpath name