Re: [Pnet-developers] An automatic cvs pull patch for ml-pnet

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 06:28 am, Gopal V wrote:

> Now 'make' will download all the libs it needs from CVS (reypastor.es)
> and further "make clean && make" will update the downloaded libs.
> "make distclean" will delete the libs thus acquired ...

I don't really like this.  Doing a CVS pull on every make is very inefficient, 
and blowing away the entire tree and restarting on a make distclean will be 
incredibly wasteful of bandwidth.  (I do a "make distclean" several times a 
day, for example).

Also, because you are only pulling specific directories, the list of things to 
build must be kept in two places: "ml_pnet/Makefile.am" and 
"ml_pnet/class/Makefile.am".  It would be better to pull the entire "mcs" 
subtree.

> Do I commit it ?

Not in this form.  It's a little too clever.  A better README should suffice.

Cheers,

Rhys.