What happened to libfeutil?

Geoffrey Keating geoffk@apple.com
Mon Jul 7 23:32:00 GMT 2003


On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 03:54  PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> What happened was, I prematurely created directories named libfeutil
> and libfeutil/include in the CVS repository, then changed my mind and
> deleted them - but the only way I know how to delete a directory in
> CVS is to go into the repository and rmdir it by hand.  Since I never
> checked anything into these directories, I thought this would be
> harmless, but it seems I was mistaken.

Yes, it's not harmless.  There's no safe way to delete a directory in 
CVS, the only solution is to just take care when creating them in the 
first place, or to not worry too much about dead directories.

> There's now a libcpp and libcpp/include which may get the same
> treatment, because Ben wants it called libpp. (I'd really appreciate
> some opinions on what this directory *should* be called.  It is mostly
> cpplib, but it's getting a number of pieces of common functionality
> too, like line-map.c and hashtable.c.)

I think that libcpp is a fine name, since this is the directory for the 
library of the C preprocessor.

-- 
Geoff Keating <geoffk@apple.com>



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