[Chandler-dev] clean vs distclean vs realclean

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:31 PM 3/1/2007 -0800, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>Currently chandler/Makefile has the distclean target that removes
>release, debug, and all the egg and plugins stuff. clean just removes
>*.py[co] and release or debug. realclean does distclean followed by
>removing tarballs.
>
>I don't find any use for the clean target in this configuration.
>
>I made a change which chains these targets differently. realclean calls
>clean which calls distclean. distclean is changed to remove only release
>or debug. clean will call distclean and then remove *.py[co]. realclean
>will call clean, and then remove tarballs and release and debug.
>
>That change was briefly in the tree but Andi backed it out accidentally
>with another backout. So I got a change to inform you that this change
>is coming back, and hear if you have any objections.

I'd like to have a target that *doesn't* remove release, but does the other 
things, as  I did have use for the previous meaning of clean.  If it's 
called something other than clean, that's fine by me.