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Re: What happened to libfeutil?


Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

| > I like libcpp better -- after all /lib/cpp is the historical program
| > which is being replaced.
| 
| I'm not really dead-set on libpp. 


If the "fe" in libfeutil stands for "Front End", then that really is a
terrible name :-( 

| I'd just thrown this suggestion into the void because I think libcpp is
| going to wind up being pretty confusing to people who aren't gcc
| developers. Ie: libcpp vs libstdc++ which one is the c++ library? I

I don't think we can do anythinig against that confusion, except
education. 

| believe in some environments the C++ Standard Library is called libcpp.

not mentioning that we accept .cpp as extension of files containing
C++ programs :-/

-- Gaby


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