[m-dev.] --use-subdirs

[Fergus Henderson]

In cs.chat,
Robert Jeschofnik <rejj at students.cs.mu.oz.au> writes:

>Which reminds me - is there any reason that the default behaviour is
>*not* to put all it's intermediate files in a subdir?

Well, the reasons for leaving the old default were backwards compatibility
and ease of implementation.

I agree that it might be nicer to make --use-subdirs the default.

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