On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:01:48 +0000, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
There are source code distributions that put a dummy file in empty directories for this reason.
Yes, I know, but I keep thinking that these dummy files look, ... well ... dummy.
:-) Okay. I noticed Drupal 4.6 automatically creates this directory if you don't do so beforehand. That means we're really trying to handle it all transparently...but I was on a shared server once where this would be a problem because the webserver was a different user than I was. An app would create a directory I couldn't delete...done badly I couldn't even access it. Looking at it functionally rather than stylistically a dummy file in the distribution handles it with no questions from anyone and no need to yell at people for not reading the fine manual.