Re: Patch Makefile.in to remove .DS_Store on MacOSX

[Ken Raeburn]

On Aug 17, 2009, at 20:54, Seiji Zenitani wrote:
> I don't think .svn needs to be added.
> We use CVS, git or bzr to develop Emacs,
> but we don't use subversion.

Who's "we"?  I was using subversion for quite a while to manage my  
local development tree.  I just couldn't use it directly from the FSF  
machines; I had to do my own mirroring.  And I did, in fact, keep  
deletion of .svn subdirectories as one of my local changes as a result.

Any setup where directories are copied wholesale from the source tree  
to the installation tree is likely to encounter such problems with  
artifacts from different environments -- .DS_Store files, VCS files or  
directories, editor backup files, etc.  It might be cleaner to copy  
only the things we want; if not with a complete list of names, then  
perhaps a list of suffixes, or directory names and suffixes, or some  
such.

Ken