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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>,
	Spectrum OS Development <devel@spectrum-os.org>
Subject: Re: Generating file lists from a script
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:51:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xe3zrvc.fsf@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03036e25-a278-4f3c-870f-f03fb4d546ca@gmail.com>

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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:

> Maintaining the lists of files and directories in the makefiles
> is error-prone.  Would it make sense to use a script to generate
> them from the git repository?  The script would get it right
> every time, whereas I tend to get it wrong more times than not.

As long as we're still maintaining a list of files in the source tree,
rather than doing something like copying whole directories, and we don't
have to make the Makefiles less readable to accomodate the script, I
don't mind.

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-31 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-31  2:59 Generating file lists from a script Demi Marie Obenour
2025-08-31 10:51 ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2025-09-01 22:14   ` Demi Marie Obenour

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