Re: [PATCH] RFC: Added wildcard support to dirlist parsing

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

 RW> Hi Alexandre,
 RW> This is somewhat older:
 RW> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2005-10/msg00009.html

 RW> * Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:52:47PM CEST:
 >> >>> "SK" == Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
 >> 
 SK> Alexandre, will you accept it?
 >> 
 >> Sure.  It just needs the usual stuff for a new feature: some
 >> documentation, and a test case that shows it (will continue to)
 >> works as documented.

 RW> Here are documentation and test.  

Thanks for doing the boring work.

 RW> I was unsure whether a reference
 RW> to glob within the libc manual was appropriate in the documentation.

Well glob() is in turn documented to behave according to the
rules of the shell, so maybe it's simpler to say "dirlist
entries may use shell wildcards such as @samp{*}, @samp{?},
or @code{[...]}".  (This would also make a nice NEWS entry.)

Assuming you have already applied Stepan/Clifford's patch to test
this, could you commit it along with yours and add Clifford to THANKS?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

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