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Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

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From: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>, 13524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "automake-patches <at> gnu.org" <automake-patches <at> gnu.org>, Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:04:43 +0100

On 2013-02-04 12:33, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 10:35 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> Not sure what to do about it, or if it matters...
>>
> It does IMHO, since the failure you pointed out, albeit easy to
> work around, wouldn't be very obvious to diagnose, from the point
> of view of a non-particularly-expert user.
> 
> What about doubling the curly braces?  As in '{{RELDIR}}'.
> Would that be tolerable?  Other possibilities (none particularly
> pleasant either, IMHO):
> 
>   {+RELDIR+}
>   {:RELDIR:}
>   {.RELDIR.}
>   {-RELDIR-}
> 
> Other proposals?

':' is a shifted symbol on my keyboard, as is &, and {} are
on a separate modifier (AltGr) making the old style (which I
refuse to replicate here) a bitch to type (which is why I
refuse). So, on the grounds of that, I'd vote against
{:RELDIR:}.

I {{think}} this one will be the easiest on us of all.

Cheers,
Peter

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