"Tobias C. Rittweiler" tcr@freebits.de writes:
Even if they work only with one implementation, why do you think they want their source directories be cluttered with fasls which just plays bad with RCS, grep, tar, and other tools?
As a datapoint: because it has been like this for ages, and normally people do not seem to be bothered too much by it.
Also, i'd like to remark that this is a default that works out of the box most of the time.
Mario