Re: [A-A-P-develop] Various issues

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> > > It's something of an automake holdover. :child $SUBDIRS seems much more
> > > convenient that "for i in var2list(SUBDIRS): :child $i". Maybe it never
> > > happens.
> >
> > Ah, if you assign the list of subdirectories to a variable I can see the
> > point of ":child" accepting a list of recipes.  But you might as well
> > call it $CHILDREN and give the recipe names.  Note that they could be in
> > the same directory as the current recipe.  Mixing file names with
> > directory names may be a bit confusing.
> 
> Agreed. In the SUBDIRS case, AAP's existing rc-expansion can handle it
> with :child $*SUBDIRS/main.aap (um, can it? does that work?).

Yes, that should work.

> I'd suggest that adding support for multiple children in one command
> is useful, but the implicit main.aap is not.

OK.  Are you going to make a patch for this?

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