Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   Tom> If you do things right, your Makefiles don't need to contain
>   Tom> specific filenames at all, and you don't need to edit any
>   Tom> Makefiles as you add, delete, or rename files
> 
>   tom> Long-time automake readers already know I'm strongly against this
>   tom> sort of structuring.
> 
> I agree.  Explicit lists of files are the way to go.  Everywhere I've
> seen globbing used it's been much more hassle than it was worth.

That doesn't mean another autoconfiscation (automakefiscation?) tool
wouldn't be useful.  Just like autoscan generates a skeleton configure.ac,
surely a tool that generates skeleton Makefile.am's would be useful?

bernd