Re: [bug #30340] dependency handling

[Florian Rivoal]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:10:28 +0200
Edward Welbourne <address@hidden> wrote:

> > You might read: http://make.mad-scientist.net/autodep.html

Thanks for the link. I have read that a while ago actually, but it was
nice finding it again. The point remains: There are better was than
what's in the info manual to handle dependencies.

Since the info manual is the authoritative source of information, and
generally speaking of excellent quality, there is no reason to settle
for half solutions.

Whether your pages, Eddy's currently unpublished proposals, my
suggestion, or a mix of all that is a better fit for the manual, that is
up for debate, but I am pretty sure it should be possible make some
improvements on the current state.

> Paul: do you have any plans to integrate your pages into the manual ?
> 
> What's currently there falls some way short of best practice; I have a
> more sweeping set of changes than Florian's, that I've put on hold
> until I've got time to look at your pages and incorporate the best
> from there with what I've got.  Unfortunately, time isn't something
> I've got a surfeit of right now, so I can't afford to do that soon.
> If you were to fold some of what you've got elsewhere into the manual,
> I'd only have one source to look at, the document I'm trying to
> improve - which would be a whole load easier for me !  Of course, I
> realise you may also have trouble finding time for that, but if I know
> your plans it'll at least help with working out how much time I need
> to make my improvements ready for use.

While I obviously have nowhere near the experience either of you have
with make, if I can compensate that by having somewhat more free time,
and help get all this into publishable state, I'd be delighted. 

- Florian