Re: [Module-build-general] [PATCH] - really fix add_to_cleanup

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Ken Williams wrote:

> I don't much like the idea of the tests reading the 'cleanup' file -
> first because that should basically be considered private data, not
> part of the interface, and second because the caller shouldn't really
> care whether it's on disk or not, just whether it "works right".
>
> The current design is that the list of cleanup files is written to disk
> at the soonest possible moment, which means whenever add_to_cleanup()
> is called and there's a config directory to write into.  Maybe we
> should try to do it even sooner, i.e. whenever add_to_cleanup() *or*
> create_build_script() is called.
>
> The patch I'll apply is appended here.  It uses some new interface
> stuff that I think is useful.  It also changes the add_to_cleanup()
> method yet again, this time for the simpler.  I think the whole system
> is a bit simpler now, actually.

Simpler is good.


-dave