Extensionless headers

[Phil Edwards]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:40:05AM +0000, Nathan Myers wrote:
> I agree that Phil's suggestion doesn't help to solve the problems I'm 
> worried about.  

See below, but without feedback other than "Bad!" I can't provide an
updated patch.

My suggestion is to change the extensionless headers back to .h headers in
the source tree, thus solving "Unix tools" problem.  If we also make the
cpplib change, the problem is additionally solved for all the users.  If you
don't like extensionless headers, then what's wrong with the suggestion?


> The problem is the proliferation of extensionless names.  Can I count 
> on anybody to keep up-to-date a complete list of all the sources and 
> their types in conveniently machine-readable form?  The filename
> extensions had done that for us, and for our tools, automatically.

Ah, so it's not so much the renaming of std_* files that bothers you
(since this is what my idea addresses), it's the files in the ext dir?


Phil

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