[Scons-users] Why directories are not removed on clean?

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 02:44 +0300, Alexey Petruchik wrote:

> Hi, all

> 

> My custom builder creates directory node. But when I run "scons -c" it is

> not removed like files. I've investigated this a bit and found that

> remove() method for node is called. This method is defined for FS.File so

> files are deleted. But for FS.Dir it fallbacks to empty implementation in

> Scons.Node.Node. My question was it made intentionally or it is just a bug?


Personally I consider this a bug. Any directory created during a build
run all contents of which are removed by a "scons -c" should be removed.

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