Re: So much technical debt, so little time

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/15/2016 03:37 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 01/15/2016 03:12 PM, Rik wrote:
> > 1/15/16
> >
> > jwe,
> >
> > The 4.2 release will be significantly better for hacking on given all the
> > clean up of the code that has occurred.  Until then, more niggling
> > issues.
> > I notice that the build system is producing .dirstamp, .octave-dirstamp,
> > and XXX.stamp files.  Is there a reason for all this diversity?  What
> > caught my attention was "test/bc-overload-tests.stamp" and
> > "scripts/java/images.stamp".  Both of these files are visible because
> > they
> > are not preceded by a leading '.'.  Since they are really internal build
> > files, can they be hidden?
>
> OK, I'll look at making these more uniform.

I left the .oct-dirstamp name alone since I used it to distinguish 
directory stamps that we manage manually from the ones managed 
automatically by Automake.

For the stamp files used for regular files, I opted for .NAME-stamp.  I 
don't know if it is still an issue, but I did that to avoid possible 
problems with filesystems that might not allow files with multiple 
extensions.

jwe