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Re: ext/ names (was: re:[PATCH] HP/SGI extensions to...)
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Cc: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:07:14 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: ext/ names (was: re:[PATCH] HP/SGI extensions to...)
> We do have backwards compatability to consider. Perhaps renaming these
> with a .h would be a bad idea. I had not considered this when I said
> "make no difference to me".
Hmm. I hadn't thought of this either. What does boost/STLport do with these
extension files? Do they provide them with .h, no suffix, or what?
Also.... now that I think about it, some of the extensions have been
proposed as formal extensions: we might want to pay attention to the
naming schemes, as proposed.
(FWIW, I agree on the elegance point. The least-important criteria,
unfortunately.)
> With much pain:
Yeah....
Anyway, I think Paolo's plan is good: proceed, finish the "hard" work, and
then do a rename all at once.
In the meantime, backwards issues and a casual sample of other
vendor headers can be completed.
-benjamin