Re: [boost] config and .cxx extensions

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-11 05:17:18

> Is there a good reason that the config library needs to use a
> "creative" choice of file extensions rather than the boost standard
> of ".*pp"?

Well they're not really complete .cpp files, and they're not headers as such
either - more like snippets of code that get #included by various other
files (the .cpp ones, and the configure script), so I wanted something
distinctive to separate them from regular source and header files.

John.