[A-A-P-develop] Re: Wildcards in file names

[Nikolai :: lone-s. :: W. <lon...@ho...>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003 23:00:29 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote something resembling:
>
> Until now wildcard expansion had to be done explicitly with the Python
> glob() function.  Thus a list of files would look like:
>
> 	FILES = abc
> 		`glob("*.py")`
> 		efg
> 		`glob("images/*.png")`
> 		xyz
>
[snip]
>
> What do you think, should we keep the glob() call or use wildcards
> directly?
>
i've always found it strange that wildcards aren't expanded everywhere
in Makefiles.  Personally, i think that auto-expanding is a nice
feature, and escaping is less often necessary than expansion.  There is
of course a problem with how to escape the necessary characters.  I
guess one way would be to use Python for that case instead.  But that
would mean you would need a lot of text for possibly a single character
(more than $star and friends).

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