bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/04/2013 12:10 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-02-03 21:42, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I've pushed the promised patches to the rewindable branch 'experimental/preproc' (based off of maint). I'll also soon send them to the list to simplify review (I will drop the bug tracker from CC:, to

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/04/2013 10:35 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-02-04 00:10, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-02-03 21:42, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I've pushed the promised patches to the rewindable branch 'experimental/preproc' (based off of maint). I'll also soon send them to the list to simplify review (I

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-02-04 12:23, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 02/04/2013 12:10 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-02-03 21:42, Stefano Lattarini wrote: I've pushed the promised patches to the rewindable branch 'experimental/preproc' (based off of maint). I'll also soon send them to the list to simplify

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-02-04 14:43, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 02/04/2013 01:04 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: I {{think}} this one will be the easiest on us of all. BTW, that was a mix of on us all and on all of us, if anyone didn't notice... I tend to agree (but see Peter Johansson's proposal to use

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 02/04/2013 03:06 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2013-02-04 14:43, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 02/04/2013 01:04 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: I {{think}} this one will be the easiest on us all. I tend to agree (but see Peter Johansson's proposal to use {AM_RELDIR} instead; what do you think about it?)

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-02-04 19:11, Stefano Lattarini wrote: On 02/04/2013 06:33 PM, Eric Blake wrote: So they aren't quite affected by configure, but they are dependent on relative location, just like existing substitutions like @top_srcdir@ are dependent on relative location. Yes, but they are dependent

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-02-04 Thread Miles Bader
%...% seems nice to me. I don't think typability should be a prime factor in deciding, especially such trivial issues such as shifted-characters (like 75% of punctuation in Makefiles is shifted on most keyboards); readability is _much_ more important (and readability in many cases means not too