Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Any objections against removing cleanbld.bat?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:50:20 -0500
Seconded.  I usually run a "distclean" before compiling under Windows.

Maynard, Chris wrote:
> Running distclean is the best and most reliable way to ensure no Win32
> build problems.  I vote to remove cleanbld.bat.
> - Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:15 AM
> To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Any objections against removing cleanbld.bat?
> 
> 
> Hi List!
> 
> As it was dicussed several times before, it seems to be a good idea to
> simply remove cleanbld.bat.
> 
> It's not updated regular and even using it seems to fail under some
> circumstances (as reported before).
> 
> It will make the documentation and maintenance and "understandability"
> of the development easier to 
> simply force the win32 developers to have all tools available for a
> complete build and simply use distclean instead.
> 
> As Win32 users won't compile Ethereal themselves they are not affected
> (compared to the UNIX world).
> 
> Of course, README.win32 needs to be updated accordingly.
> 
> 
> So are there any objections against removing it? 
> 
> Regards, ULFL
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