Re: Is it OK for genpath to skip all directories beginning with a period

[John Swensen]

On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 18-Feb-2009, John Swensen wrote:
>
> | I have attached a patch that has the genpath function skip all
> | directories that begin with a period.  My main reason for doing this
> | was .svn and .hg directories.
>
> Would that create any compatibility problems?
>
> In any case, it might be better to introduce a variable that contains
> a list of patterns to skip instead of just skipping all directories
> that start with ".".
>
> jwe

There is already a FIXME comment in the sources along the lines of the  
skipping method you suggested, but that is also non-compatible behavior.

John Swensen