[M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3

Olaf Wagner wagner at elegosoft.com
Wed Jan 2 12:24:51 CET 2008


On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:44:37AM +0000, Jay wrote:
> 
>    Olaf,
>    1) I PERSONALLY really don't like hidden files.
>    Most things that people hide aren't worth hiding and might be worth
>    seeing.
>    Rename the . file you create?
>    Besides that, get this..
>    I have a low end Western Digital NAS.
>    It runs Linux but it's very much a "sealed box" "appliance".
>    The source to the thing is available of course.
>    It has files that start with dot.
>    They show as hidden -- and they cannot be unhidden.
>    This caused me problems trying to copy the source over itself, since
>    on Windows "hidden" is somewhat "protected", kind of like "read only".
>    So that just makes me further dislike this notion.
>    2) You created the .datenow file outside the output directory on
>    purpose?
>    So it doesn't get cleaned as often?

No, I just used existing quake code there; I've got no objection to change
name and location. The code got copied from DCVS and in turn from CVSup.
I just recycled it ;-)

Olaf
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