Hi Francois, On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:45:53 +0200 Francois Tigeot <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm sure there was a good reason to use it in 1988. Or maybe not, I > can't possibly pretend to know. Probably not. I'd rather guess it was a workaround to a problem that would have deserved a proper solution back then. > What I would like to know is if there's still a reason to use this > suffix in 2011. Unfortunately, yes: compatibility for C++ extensions -- at least for the lower level libs that provide most of the UNO infrastructure. > It would tremendously simplify packaging to use the same file names > on all platforms. Thats why it is already on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4, and why I tried to make it easy to switch of the "creative" naming in the new build system at once. Which leads us to the next point: Doing the switch while we still have two build systems is not a good idea. Best, Bjoern -- https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
