[boost] Re: config and .cxx extensions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-11 08:45:59

larsbj_at_[hidden] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:

> "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>> 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, 

What makes something a "complete .cpp file?"

>  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.
>
> Then perhaps using some extension that is not a common C++ extension
> would be better?

Err.  The whole point of using ".hpp" was so that we could quickly
search through all the C++ source files with a simple filename
globbing pattern.  This is one of the first conventions we
established, at Nico's wise insistence.  At least use ".ipp", please!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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