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Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)
From: |
Christopher Faylor |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with echo. (echo period) |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:26:10 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) |
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:18:13AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 24 April 2007 10:11, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>>Quoting Dave Korn <address@hidden>:
>>>On 24 April 2007 07:43, Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>>>>and the whole community will benefit from this very slight improvement.
>>>
>>>Nope, only the minority of win32/cmd.exe users. An awful lot of people
>>>never use make with any other than a POSIX shell....
>>>
>>
>>Yes, well, we're discussing on the make-*w32* ML, what did you expect?
>
>Well, yes, but the code change involves anybody.
>
>>That's still quite a lot of people anyway... Many people (like me)
>>have to port/compile their projects on Windows (unfortunately).
>>
>>Given the cost of the improvement, I think it's worth the effort (2
>>extra lines in a C file).
>
>It gets to be a problem when a project accumulates many many years
>worth of "just 2 extra lines for an ad-hoc fix". I'm not strongly for
>or against.
There's that plus the fact that the whole reason for this, AFAICT, is to
somehow make your makefile output a blank line. Is that really a common
enough task worth the cost of maintaining a kludge?
Then there's the added support cost of answering questions like "Well,
you already added a dot to echo, what's the harm of adding a 'dir.',
too?"
To me, this clearly falls into the domain of "do it the right way or
don't do it at all". If there were hundreds of people asking for this
feature I might feel differently but given that this is the first time
I've seen this particular problem surface in nine months of monitoring
this mailing list, I don't see why we should add a kludge here.
cgf
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), (continued)
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Aaron Shatters, 2007/04/23
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Aaron Shatters, 2007/04/23
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/24
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Benoit Sigoure, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Dave Korn, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Benoit Sigoure, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Dave Korn, 2007/04/24
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period),
Christopher Faylor <=
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Dave Korn, 2007/04/24
- Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Earnie Boyd, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Dave Korn, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Earnie Boyd, 2007/04/24
- RE: Problems with echo. (echo period), Dave Korn, 2007/04/24
Re: Problems with echo. (echo period), Aaron Shatters, 2007/04/24