Re: how many font descriptions should be in font/devpdf? (was: typesetting.{mom, pdf} and the groff build system "headline" items for groff 1.24.0)

On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM G. Branden Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> weird/stupid things [...] can occur if a directory is used for an
> out-of-tree build after having been once used for an in-tree build

I'll re-ask an unanswered question from Ingo from a couple weeks ago
(http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2026-01/msg00078.html):

"Given that you prefer out-of-tree, that it is objectively cleaner and
better tested, why is in-tree even supported at all?  Simply deleting
the code supporting in-tree and making all builds out-of-tree naively
looks like a win for everyone: less maintenance and testing effort for
you and more cleanliness and better testing for the benefit of users."
 The "weird/stupid things" cited above are a real-world example of
Ingo's point about "more cleanliness."