Re: Remove distprep

On 02.11.23 23:34, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2023-11-01 16:39:24 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> OTOH, it seems somewhat unlikely that maintainer-clean is utilized much in
>>> extensions. I see it in things like postgis, but that has it's own configure
>>> etc, even though it also invokes pgxs.
>>
>> I thought about this.  I don't think this is something that any extension
>> would use.  If they care about the distinction between distclean and
>> maintainer-clean, are they also doing their own distprep and dist?  Seems
>> unlikely.  I mean, if some extension is actually affected, I'm happy to
>> accommodate, but we can deal with that when we learn about it.  Moreover, if
>> we are moving forward in this direction, we would presumably also like the
>> extensions to get rid of their distprep step.
>>
>> So I think we are ready to move ahead with this patch.  There have been some
>> light complaints earlier in this thread that people wanted to keep some way
>> to clean only some of the files.  But there hasn't been any concrete
>> follow-up on that, as far as I can see, so I don't know what to do about
>> that.
> 
> +1, let's do this. We can add dedicated target for more specific cases later
> if we decide we want that.

done