'clean' command doesn't delete directories, only files

[yegor256]

I configure it like this, in build.lua:

cleanfiles = {"build", "_minted", "*.pdf"}

However, when I run l3build clean the directory _minted is not deleted.

[josephwright]

Indeed, that's true: what's the use case?

[yegor256]

@josephwright the use case is simple: I want temporary files and directories to be deleted with l3build clean :)

[josephwright]

@yegor256 I mean something like: TeX doesn't care about directories, which are also not tracked by systems such as Git, so typically there is no need to remove them. What issue arises from leaving them alone?

[yegor256]

@josephwright in my case, they have temporary files that affect the next build. I would like to have an ability to start from scratch. Now I have to delete them manually.

[josephwright]

@josephwright in my case, they have temporary files that affect the next build. I would like to have an ability to start from scratch. Now I have to delete them manually.

That sounds more like we are missing cleaning out directories recursively