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Re: underscores in gnulib file names


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: underscores in gnulib file names
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:38:24 +0200
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Eric Blake wrote:
> But editors (at least good ones, including vi, emacs, and kate) can be
> taught about new suffixes, and once taught, will treat .eh like .h.

Solving a problem for yourself is one thing; solving it for all the people
who look at the gnulib sources from outside is another.

I did such a mistake in a past life (in GNU clisp: use of .d suffix for
essentially C source, and use .lsp suffix for what most other people named
.lisp). The effect: It reduces the willingless of people to contribute to
the project. In other words: It takes away contributors. To some extent,
it pushes the project out of the mainstream, into a niche.

Bruno





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