Re: [boost] [guideline] 31 character filenames?

Subject: Re: [boost] [guideline] 31 character filenames?
From: Kim Barrett (kab.conundrums_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-27 17:47:56

On Mar 27, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:
> Our current guidelines[1] say filenames should not exceed 31 characters.
> This was recently brought to my attention by a bug[2] from someone who
> actually cares because he uses the ODS-2 filesystem on OpenVMS. On a
> lark, I hacked the inspect tool to check for too-long filenames and lo!
> found a bazillion. Most (but not all) violations are from doc files
> auto-generated by doxygen and docbook, but which nevertheless go out
> with the boost distribution and so should conform. (Right?)
> 
> So, should we care? Considering that we have little control(?) over how
> doxygen and docbook generate their files?

Doxygen has a SHORT_NAMES configuration option:

"If the SHORT_NAMES tag is set to YES, doxygen will generate much shorter (but less readable) filenames."

I've never used it myself.